Title : The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective
Author : Eugene C. Hargrove, ed.
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Year : July 1, 1992
ISBN : 0791409333
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About the Book : This book traces the Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics dispute through the key steps of its history, in the form of the most important original articles, and points the way to a resolution. It is useful to the scholar interested in the animal rights issue and it is appropriate as a textbook in a course in Environmental Ethics of any level, form beginning to graduate. For the beginner, it teaches the key issues in non-technical language and for the scholar it traces the history of an important dispute and clearly distinguishes basic ideas in their historical context.

Title : Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society
Author : Michael W. Fox
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Year : February 1, 2001
ISBN : 0791448029
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About the Book : Bringing Life to Ethics continues in the tradition of Michael W. Fox's lifelong inquiry into values, social and personal relationships, and the treatment of animals, the environment, and each other. Fox, the popular nationally syndicated columnist of "Ask the Animal Doctor," uses the compass of global bioethics in this book--humility, responsibility, interdisciplinary and intercultural competence, and compassion--to counter technological, ecological, and value threats by pointing in the direction of a humane and sustainable society. Not intended to further the scholarly debate over what constitutes ethics, Fox brings ethics into our personal and professional lives. He shows how bioethics has immediate relevance and applicability to a wide range of public and private enterprises.

About the Author : Michael W. Fox is a graduate veterinarian from the Royal Veterinary College, London, England, with doctoral degrees in medicine and in ethology/animal behavior from the University of London, England. Formerly an associate professor of psychology at Washington University, St. Louis, Dr. Fox has worked full-time in the animal rights and protection movement for the past thirty years, applying science and ethics to improve the treatment and status of animals in society. In addition to his nationally syndicated newspaper column, he has authored more than forty books on animal behavior, rights, welfare, and conservation, including most recently, The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation and Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth and Humans.

Title : The Animal Rights Debate
Author : Carl Cohen and Tom Regan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)
Year : May, 2001
ISBN : 0847696634
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About the Book : Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate and influential philosophers representing the opposing camps. Each makes his case in turn to the opposing case. The arguments meet head on: Are we humans morally justified in using animals as we do? A vexed and enduring controversy here receives its deepest and most eloquent exposition.

About the Author : Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tom Regan is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Title : Animal Rights and Human Morality
Author : Bernard E. Rollin
Publisher : Prometheus Books; Revised edition
Year : September 1, 1992
ISBN : 0879757892
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About the Book : It's been more than a decade since the first edition of Animal Rights and Human Morality garnered public accolades for its sensitive yet honest and forthright approach to the many disquieting questions surrounding the white-hot debate over animal rights. Is moral concern something owed by human beings only to human beings? Drawing upon his philosophical expertise, his extensive experience of working with animal issues all over the world, and his knowledge of biological science, Bernard E.Rollin develops a compelling analysis of animal rights as it is emerging in society. The result is a sound basis for rational discussion and social policy development in this area of rapidly growing concern. He believes that society must elevate the moral status of animals, and protect their rights as determined by their natures. His public speaking and published works have contributed to passage of major federal legislation designed to increase the well-being of laboratory animals. Bernard E. Rollin is professor of philosophy and biophysics, and director of bioethical planning ay Colorado State University.

Title : Animal Equality: Language and Liberation
Author : Joan Dunayer
Publisher : Ryce Pub.
Year : May, 2001
ISBN : 0970647557
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About the Book : The first book on speciesism and language, and the most progressive animal-rights book to date, Animal Equality
- shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward nonhuman animals
- exposes the cruelty of hunting, sportfishing, zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection, and food-industry captivity and slaughter
- presents compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion
- uncovers the speciesist attitudes and practices that underlie much racist and sexist language
- provides pronoun, vocabulary, and style guidelines for nonspeciesist language
- argues that every animal—nonhuman or human—deserves equal consideration and protection.

Title : Strolling With Our Kin: Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animals
Author : Marc Bekoff
Publisher : Amer Anti-Vivisection Society; 1st edition
Year : October, 2000
ISBN : 1881699021
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About the Book : Marc Bekoff is almost certainly a most prominent and persistent voice in support of animal welfare and rights; the animal-rights movement is moving like a slow, but inexorable tide into the national mindset. Here's the most powerful evidence yet: In the past two weeks McDonald's, a company responsible for the cruel farming of literally millions of animals a year, directed its farms and packing houses to begin reducing the stress and suffering of livestock, from pigs to cows to chickens. A small step, perhaps, but when McDonald's begins changing, can the world be far behind? Bekoff, of course, has been on the offensive in this struggle for a long time. "Strolling With Our Kin," his new book ostensibly for children on animal-welfare issues is a welcome addition to a growing canon. As famed primate researcher Jane Goodall has written in the introduction, "There is a vast amount of information about issues of animal abuse and conservation in a vast number of books, magazines....Marc Bekoff has pulled the issues together and written about them with clarity and conviction." Bekoff's starting point is one refreshingly beyond those of most scientists: Rather than claim a la Descartes that animals are little more than machines with which we may do as we please, he urges not just kindness, but respect and recognition for nonhuman organisms. "We need to develop and to live an ethic of caring and sharing, so that all animals are respected for the individuals they are," he writes. He examines and criticizes such obvious inhumane treatment as product testing and medical testing on live animals and factory farming few people realize that hogs, for instance, are primarily raised in sterile barns; they never see the sun, and females are kept almost immobile for their entire lives. Bekoff grudgingly acknowledges that zoos must exist, now that humans have created a population of nonwild animals that would die if released. He leads a cogent discussion of the "necessity" (or rather, lack thereof) of utilizing animals to provide food, clothing and medicine for humans. Bekoff also points out that the largest single issue threatening nonhuman animals global habitat destruction is sometimes forgotten in a "forest-for-the-trees" way by many people. "Strolling With Our Kin" is an excellent primer on animal rights and welfare issues.