Animal Rights and Wrongs: No. 21 (Demos Papers) - Softcover

Scruton, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1898309825 ISBN 13: 9781898309826

Publisher: Demos, 1996

Synopsis

A revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, what duties?These are myariad other issues are discussed in this brilliantly argued book, published in association with the leading think-tank Demos. Why are animal-rights groups so keen to protect the rights of badgers and foxes but not of rats mice or even humans? How can we bridge the growing gap between rural producers and urban consumers? Why is raising animals for fur more heinous than raising them for their meat? Are we as human beings driving other species either to extinction or to a state of dependency? This paperback edition is fully updated with new chapters on the livestoick crisis, fishing and BSE and a layman's guide introduction to philosophical concepts, the book presents a radical respponse to the defenders of animal rights and a challenge to those who think that because they are kind to their pets, they are therefore good news for animals.

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About the Author

Professor Roger Scruton is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington and Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His other books include Sexual Desire, The West and the Rest, England: An Elegy, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets (all published by Continuum).

Synopsis

An essay on the morality of mankind's relationship to other animals which suggests that it is wrong to assume that animals have rights, but rather that they are owed duties. Identifies a complex series of duties to animals, against a background of public concern about a range of issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1898309825
• ISBN 13: 9781898309826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116