Animals Like Us

By: Mark Rowlands, Colin McGinn (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 August 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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, bloated dead sheep with their legs in the air, mutilated dogs waiting to die after undergoing horrendous experiments in the name of science or even 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.

In this clearly argued book, 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, as well as the animal rights activism that has resulted from the recognition by a relatively small group of political activists that animals cannot simply be considered in their relation to humans.

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"...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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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Animals & Society Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy Sociology & Anthropology

Editor's Introduction
Introduction	p. 1
Do Animals Have Minds?	p. 3
The Moral Club	p. 26
Justice for All	p. 58
Killing Animals	p. 70
Using Animals for Food	p. 100
Using Animals for Experiments	p. 124
Zoos	p. 152
Hunting	p. 160
Pets	p. 169
Animal Rights Activism	p. 177
What Goes Around Comes Around	p. 195
Notes	p. 214
Index	p. 217
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