Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
ISBN-10
0231139500
ISBN-13
9780231139502
Category
Nature
Pages
235
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Gary Lawrence Francione

Description

Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He then presents a theory of animal rights that focuses on the need to accord all sentient nonhumans the right not to be treated as property.

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