Animals and society

What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare?

Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it.

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals displaying what seem to be moral feelings.

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine.

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere.

In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement.

How much do animals matter--morally?

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways.

How we treat animals arouses strong emotions.

While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life.

Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy.

Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy.

After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance.

After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance.

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of meat eatingIn a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice?

A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of meat eatingIn a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice?

How we treat animals arouses strong emotions.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals.

The ethical treatment of animals has become an issue of serious moral concern.

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine.

Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "e;two dogmas of environmental ethics"e;--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy.

Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love.

This is the first edited collection devoted entirely to the question of the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant.

This is the first edited collection devoted entirely to the question of the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant.

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals?

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals?

Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals?

Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals?

Most people agree that animals count morally.

Most people agree that animals count morally.

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants.

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications.

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications.

As an age-old metaphor for the sexual chase, the hunt provides a uniquely conflicted site for the representation of masculinity.

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights.

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights.

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all.

From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in Montgolfier's balloon, to Galvani's frog's legs, Dolly the Sheep, the finches of the Galapagos, and even imaginary cats and simulated life forms, Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat explores the fascinating history of the role of living things in science.

When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions - it is easy to suppose that they have minds like ours.

Do animals have moral rights?

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all.

From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in Montgolfier's balloon, to Galvani's frog's legs, Dolly the Sheep, the finches of the Galapagos, and even imaginary cats and simulated life forms, Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat explores the fascinating history of the role of living things in science.

When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions - it is easy to suppose that they have minds like ours.

Christine M.