Animal Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8085832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary L Francione, Anna E Charlton |
| Editors | Linda Kalof |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 24-42 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199927142.013.11 |
| OpenAlex | W4233060278 |
| ISBN | 9780199927142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The term “animal rights” is used broadly and often inconsistently in discussions of animal ethics. This chapter focuses on seven topics: (1) the pre-nineteenth-century view of animals as things and the emergence of the animal welfare position; (2) the work of Lewis Gompertz and of Henry Salt; (3) the Vegan Society, the Oxford Group, and Peter Singer’s animal liberation theory; (4) Tom Regan’s animal rights theory; (5) the abolitionist animal rights theory; (6) animal rights and the law; and (7) animal rights as a social movement. Herein, “rights” describes the protection of interests irrespective of consequences. The chapter’s position that veganism (not consuming any animal products), is a moral baseline follows from the widely-shared recognition that animals have moral value and are not merely things; veganism is the only rational response to that recognition
Animal ethics · Animal rights · Animal welfare · Biology · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Moral rights · Political science · Sentience · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |