Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 229 páginas
Described by Jeffrey Masson as 'the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, ' this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of 'humane treatment' favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty
 

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The Cat
1
Norman Rockwell Americans
7
WHO ARE YOU ANIMAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ANYWAY?
9
HOW DID YOU GET THAT WAY?
21
Moral Rights What They Are and Why They Matter
35
HUMAN RIGHTS
37
ANIMAL RIGHTS
53
Saying and Doing
75
TURNING ANIMALS INTO PERFORMERS
125
TURNING ANIMALS INTO COMPETITORS
141
TURNING ANIMALS INTO TOOLS
159
Many Hands on Many Oars
179
YES BUT
181
EPILOGUE The Cat
199
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
201
NOTES
203

WHAT WE LEARN FROM ALICE
77
The Metamorphoses
85
TURNING ANIMALS INTO FOOD
87
TURNING ANIMALS INTO CLOTHES
107
INDEX
221
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
229
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Tom Regan is emeritus professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The author of more than twenty books, he is universally recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. Among his most well-known works on animal rights are The Case for Animal Rights (1983), The Struggle for Animal Rights (1987), Defending Animal Rights (2001), and, with Carl Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate (2001).

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