What Are Animal Rights For?, livre audio

• Combines consideration of the philosophical grounding and the real-world application of animal rights

• Written from an unambiguously pro-animal rights stance, but one which invites the reader to imagine what a world in which animals enjoyed rights would be like rather than preaching

• Covers longstanding issues (such as vivisection and factory farming) but also up-to-date debates (such as political representation of non-humans, wild animal suffering) that have gained prominence in the years since competing volumes were written

• As well as examining the nature of animal rights, also examines their limitations, asking: are there other, complementary ways to reconfigure our relations with non-human animals (such as virtue-based ethics)?

How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering?

The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the planet. These questions are becoming more pressing as livestock farming exerts an ever-greater toll on the planet and the animals themselves, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows why animals ought to have greater rights and what the world might look like if they did.

1. Introduction

2. A Brief Intellectual History of Animal Rights

3. Rights, Interests and Choices

4. Case Studies: Animals in the Farm, Home, Zoo and Lab

5. Emerging issues: From Mollusc Rights to Animal Citizens

6. Engaging the Imagination: Turning Prejudice into Compassion

7. Conclusion: Beyond Animal Rights?