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Evolution, Animal 'rights' & the Environment

Author : James B. Reichmann
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813209548
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Animal 'rights' & the Environment written by James B. Reichmann and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this study undertakes an investigation of the metaethical grounds of ""rights"" theory, with special focus on the controversial issue of whether creatures other than humans can and should be considered true subjects of ""rights"". He contends that before assigning rights to this or that individual or group, whether human or not, we need to be very clear about what it is we are assigning, to whom and why. The book argues that the efforts to build a case supporting animal and environmental ""rights"" fail in their quest, and that any such effort resting on a Darwinian evolutionary base is likewise condemnded to fail. The author investigates life phenomena, followed by a detailed comparative study of knowing, communicating and doing, as these are observed in the human and nonhuman animal. This is followed by an overview of diverse views advanced by contemporary environmental ethnicists and animal ""rights"" advocates, including Peter Singer, Tom Regan, J. Baird Callicott, Laura Westra, and Don E. Marietta Jr. Conclusions drawn from this study include the claims that: classic Darwinian theory provides no admissable premise from which to derive a theory of inherent, inalienable rights; no satisfactory explanation of the origin of rghts and obligation can derive save from within the context of natural law theory; the human person alone unqualifiedly possesses rights; and the view that vegetarianism is an ethical mandate is neither compatible with the Christian world view, nor philosophically sound.

The Case for Animal Experimentation

Author : Michael Allen Fox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520055018
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Animal Experimentation written by Michael Allen Fox and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses animal rights and the morality of animal experiments, suggests ethical guidelines for the use of animals as test subjects, and identifies irrational attitudes towards animals

The Dominant Animal

Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597264601
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Dominant Animal written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species? What can we do to change the current trajectory toward more climate change, increased famine, and epidemic disease? Renowned Stanford scientists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich believe that intelligently addressing those questions depends on a clear understanding of how we evolved and how and why we’re changing the planet in ways that darken our descendants’ future. The Dominant Animal arms readers with that knowledge, tracing the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution since the dawn of humanity. In lucid and engaging prose, they describe how Homo sapiens adapted to their surroundings, eventually developing the vibrant cultures, vast scientific knowledge, and technological wizardry we know today. But the Ehrlichs also explore the flip side of this triumphant story of innovation and conquest. As we clear forests to raise crops and build cities, lace the continents with highways, and create chemicals never before seen in nature, we may be undermining our own supremacy. The threats of environmental damage are clear from the daily headlines, but the outcome is far from destined. Humanity can again adapt—if we learn from our evolutionary past. Those lessons are crystallized in The Dominant Animal. Tackling the fundamental challenge of the human predicament, Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer a vivid and unique exploration of our origins, our evolution, and our future.

Animal Ecology

Author : Charles Sutherland Elton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Animal Ecology written by Charles Sutherland Elton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Rights

Author : John M. Kistler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313096090
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights written by John M. Kistler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductions to each chapter explain the issues, as well as the arguments that surround them, and a general introduction to the volume thoroughly explains how to use the book. Each entry contains the following information: author, title, edition, series title, location of publisher, name of publisher, number of pages, year of publication, and International Standard Book Number. Annotations include the most important information available to help the researcher, including web sites that contain not only the full text of the book when available, but also excerpts and articles or interviews by the author; short quotations from the books; and short descriptions and summaries of the books. All the information provided allows students to locate exactly what they need, while encouraging them to explore other issues and differing viewpoints.

Natural Relations

Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860913931
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Natural Relations written by Ted Benton and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals, whether human or animals, in isolation from their social position. This makes them vulnerable to criticisms from the left which emphasize the importance of social relationships to individual well-being. Benton's argument supports the important assumption, underpinning the cause for human rights, that humans and other species of animal have much in common, both in the conditions for their well-being and their vulnerability to harm. Both liberal rights theory and its socialist critique fail adequately to theorize these aspects of human vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is argued that, enriched by feminist and ecological insights, a socialist view of rights has much to offer. Lucid and wide-ranging in its argument, Natural Relations enables the outline of an ecological socialist view of rights and justice to begin to take shape.

Animal Experimentation and Animal Rights

Author : Ruth Friedman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Animal Experimentation and Animal Rights written by Ruth Friedman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Evolution of National Wildlife Law

Author : Michael J. Bean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of National Wildlife Law written by Michael J. Bean and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

Author : Marc Bekoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135930023
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare written by Marc Bekoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings' responsibility to and for their fellow animals has become an increasingly controversial subject. This book provides a provocative overview of the many different perspectives on the issues of animal rights and animal welfare in an easy-to-use encyclopedic format. Original contributions, from over 125 well-known philosophers, biologists, and psychologists in this field, create a well-balanced and multi-disciplinary work. Users will be able to examine critically the varied angles and arguments and gain a better understanding of the history and development of animal rights and animal protectionist movements around the world. Outstanding Reference Source Best Reference Source

The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate

Author : Eugene C. Hargrove
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405812
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate written by Eugene C. Hargrove and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Redemption of the Animals

Author : Douglas Sloan
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1584201959
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Redemption of the Animals written by Douglas Sloan and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human beings, what is our true relationship to the animals on earth? What is our responsibility to our fellow creatures? Douglas Sloan explores these and other questions in this important book on the human-animal connection. His explorations are based on personal experience and wide-ranging research into the work of Rudolf Steiner and others, including scientist students of the inner life of animals and committed defenders of animal wellbeing. Rudolf Steiner describes how from the beginning of creation humans and animals have been united in deep kinship. A loss of the sense of this human–animal connection has resulted in an immense animal suffering the world over. Especially in their suffering, the animals now pose for the modern human being many pressing and perplexing questions. Are the animals conscious? Do they have feelings like ours? Do they experience pain? Do the animals have a spiritual reality and experience? Do the animals have souls and selves? Do the animals have capacities for cognitive intelligence, emotional empathy, language, and memory? Is there a crucial difference between the human and the animal, a basic difference in kind, or only a difference in degree? Do animals have rights? Are we justified in using the animals as we wish—eating them, hunting them, experimenting on them? Rudolf Steiner presents a vision of the ultimate redemption of the animals from their suffering. What is the nature of this redemption? What is our responsibility in making it happen? In exploring these and related questions with the help of Rudolf Steiner’s work and that of others on the issue, we can begin to see the importance in our time of our relating to the animals in a completely new way—a relationship that understands and respects the animals’ inner spiritual being, and one that requires a deep grasp of our own spiritual being in relation to theirs. In this book, Douglas Sloan seeks to help us toward this new relationship with the animals, both in concept and in everyday action.

The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate

Author : Eugene C. Hargrove
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791409336
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate written by Eugene C. Hargrove and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints 11 articles and chapters of books that document the environmental ethics view of the animal-rights movement, exploring whether animal welfare considerations can provide a basis for an environmental ethic. Offered as a view of wildlife to complement (and challenge at times) the animal-rights literature, which focuses on domestic animals and subjects of experiments. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Covenant of the Wild

Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300147476
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Covenant of the Wild written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism

Author : Amy J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509533753
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism written by Amy J. Fitzgerald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for decades there have been flashpoints which seem to pit these two social movements against each other, dividing them in ways unhelpful to both. In this innovative book, Amy J. Fitzgerald analyses historic, philosophical, and socio-cultural reasons for this divide. Tackling three core contentious issues – sport hunting, zoos, and fur – over which there has been profound disagreement between segments of these movements, she demonstrates that, even here, they are not as far apart as is generally assumed, and that there is space where they could more productively work together. Charting a path forwards, she points to evolving practices and broad structural forces which are likely to draw the movements closer together in the future. The threats posed by industrial animal agriculture to the environment and to non-human and human animals demand, once and for all, that we bridge the divide between animal advocacy and environmentalism.

The State of the Animals, 2001

Author : Deborah J. Salem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The State of the Animals, 2001 written by Deborah J. Salem and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars, industry experts, and activists present an array of perspectives on the conditions in which animals and people cohabitate and how it has evolved, for better and for worse, over the past half- century. Addressed are farm animals, pets, laboratory animals, zoo animals, and wildlife around the world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Animal Ethics Reader

Author : Susan J. Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317421965
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Animal Ethics Reader written by Susan J. Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Animal Ethics Reader is an acclaimed anthology containing both classic and contemporary readings, making it ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a thorough introduction to the central topics, controversies and ethical dilemmas surrounding the treatment of animals, covering a wide range of contemporary issues, such as animal activism, genetic engineering, and environmental ethics. The extracts are arranged thematically under the following clear headings: Theories of Animal Ethics Nonhuman Animal Experiences Primates and Cetaceans Animals for Food Animal Experimentation Animals and Biotechnology Ethics and Wildlife Zoos and Aquariums Animal Companions Animal Law and Animal Activism Readings from leading experts in the field including Peter Singer, Bernard E. Rollin and Jane Goodall are featured, as well as selections from Tom Regan, Jane Goodall, Donald Griffin, Temple Grandin, Ben A. Minteer, Christine Korsgaard and Mark Rowlands. Classic extracts are well balanced with contemporary selections, helping to present the latest developments in the field. This revised and updated Third Edition includes 31 new readings on a range of subjects, including animal rights, captive chimpanzees, industrial farm animal production, genetic engineering, keeping cetaceans in captivity, animal cruelty, and animal activism. The Third Edition also is printed with a slightly larger page format and in an easier-to-read typeface. Featuring contextualizing introductions by the editors, study questions and further reading suggestions as the end of each chapter, this will be essential reading for any student taking a course in the subject. With a new foreword by Bernard E. Rollin.

Animal Subjects

Author : Jodey Castricano
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205124
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Animal Subjects written by Jodey Castricano and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to Animal Subjects are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. The first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, this collection aims to include the non-human-animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.