This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society’s moral obligation to animals in t

Discusses the theoretical and practical issues related to animals and morality, focusing on the problems of research animals and pets, and looking at the breach

By exploring the ethical differences between humans and animals,Animalkind establishes a middle ground betweenegalitarianism and outright dismissal of animal ri

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities

THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.