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Author: Robert Garner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1783487267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection of original essays focuses on the political dimension of the debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals.
Author: Robert Garner
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2005-09-02
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780745630793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an attempt to lead the way through the moral maze that is our relationship with nonhuman animals. Written by an author with an established reputation in this field, the book takes the reader step by step through the main parameters of the debate, demonstrating at each turn the different positions adopted. In the second part of the book, the implications of holding each position for the ethical permissibility of what is done to animals - in laboratories, farms, the home and the wild - are explained. Garner starts by asking whether animals have any moral standing before moving on to assess exactly what degree of moral status ought to be accorded to them. It is suggested that whilst animals should not be granted the same moral status as humans, they are worthy of greater moral consideration than the orthodox animal welfare position allows. As a result, it is suggested that many of the ways we currently treat animals are morally illegitimate. In the final chapter, the issue of political praxis is tackled. How are reforms to the ways in which animals are treated to be achieved? This book suggests that currently dominant debates about insider status and direct action are less important than the question of agency. That is, the important question is not what is done to change the way animals are treated as much as whom is to be mobilised to join the cause. Students of philosophy, politics and environmental issues will find this an essential textbook.
Author: Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2019-12-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781509530052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll political communities must make decisions about how to regulate the treatment of animals. Most states currently protect animals through outlawing the infliction of ‘unnecessary suffering’. But do animals’ rights end there? In this book, Alasdair Cochrane argues that states must go much further. Animals have rights to be protected not only from the cruelty of individuals, but also from those structures and institutions which routinely (and, in some cases, necessarily) cause them harm, such as industrialised animal agriculture. But even that isn’t adequate. In order to ensure that their interests are taken seriously, it is imperative that we represent their interests throughout the political process – they require not only rights to protection, but also to democratic membership. Cochrane’s important intervention in this controversial debate will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of political theory and animal rights.
Author: Robert Garner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005-07-22
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780719067105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at the impact on political thinking caused by the idea that animals are morally important beings, this text suggests that liberalism, despite having weaknesses, is the most appropriate ideological position for the protection of animal interests.
Author: European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Congress
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789086869152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental conditions for food production. Climate change and the actions it requires raise questions of justice, especially regarding food security. These key concerns of ethics and justice for food security due to climate change challenges are the focus of this book, which brings together work by scholars from a wide range of disciplines and a multitude of perspectives. These experts discuss the challenges to food security posed by mitigation, geoengineering, and adaptation measures that tackle the impacts of climate change. Others address the consequences of a changing climate for agriculture and food production and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected food security and animal welfare.
Author: Sue Donaldson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-11-24
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0199599661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.
Author: Mylan Engel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1498531911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the “kind” argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.
Author: Tom Regan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780520054608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.
Author: Bob Torres
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1904859674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.
Author: Tony Miligan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1317543300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for consumption. Animal Ethics: The Basics is an essential introduction to the key considerations surrounding the ethical treatment of animals. Taking a thematic approach, it outlines the current arguments from animal agency to the emergence of the ‘political turn’. This book explores such questions as: Can animals think and do they suffer? What do we mean by speciesism? Are humans special? Can animals be political or moral agents? Is animal rights protest ethical? Including outlines of the key arguments, suggestions for further reading and a glossary of key terms, this book is an essential read for philosophy students and readers approaching the contested field of Animal Ethics for the first time.
