Animals Like Us

Foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, caged pigs with sores, bloated dead sheep with their legs in the air, mutilated dogs waiting to die after undergoing horrendous experiments in the name of science or just product-testing - these are some of the images that illustrate the indifference of a consumerist society to the suffering of animals. Few are willing to recognize that the packaged, sanitized supermarket meat that materializes on their dinner tables every day is the result of an industrial process involving unimaginable pain and suffering. We would be horrified if our pets were harmed, yet every day we eat animals that have been tortured and executed. Mark Rowlands claims that it is simply unjust to harm animals. As conscious, sentient beings, biologically continuous with humans, they have interests that cannot simply be disregarded. Using simple principles of justice, he argues that animals have moral rights, and examines the consequences of this claim in the contexts of vegetarianism, animal experimentation, zoos and hunting, and animal rights activism.

ISBN 1859843867   Pages 233 ISBN13 9781859843864 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Verso Books   Weight (grammes) 333 Imprint Verso Books   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Practical ethics series Publication date 31 Jul 2002   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress HV   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 179.3   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, General

		Editor's Introduction by Colin McGinn
		Introduction		1
1		Do Animals Have Minds?		3
2		The Moral Club		26
3		Justice for All		58
4		Killing Animals		70
5		Using Animals for Food		100
6		Using Animals for Experiments		124
7		Zoos		152
8		Hunting		160
9		Pets		169
10		Animal Rights Activism		177
11		What Goes Around Comes Around		195
		Notes		214
		Index		217

"...an impressive new work." Andrew Linzey, on Animal Rights "... Rowlands has written an important and provocative book." Lynne Rudder Baker, on The Body and the Mind

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