21. Fighting to Win, by Henry Spira
that about 70 million animals are used in United
States laboratories each year, and nearly 4 billion farm animals
die annually in the United States, that isn't a great triumph. But
it showed that
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/spira01.htm - 48.6kb
22. Constraints and Animals, by Robert Nozick
namely, nonhuman animals. Are there any limits to
what we may do to animals? Have animals the moral status of mere
objects? Do some purposes fail to entitle us to impose
great costs on
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/nozick01.htm - 24.8kb
23. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/whitemiles01.htm - 74.7kb
24. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
in this case the United States, whose social
values were injured by what was being done to the dolphins'. This
argument was rejected on the ground that, in the eyes of the law,
cruelty to
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/midgley01.htm - 36.1kb
25. Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights, by Donald VanDeVeer
"Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?" James Rachels seeks to show
that there are certain rights possessed by Animals and that
certain arguments purporting to show that it is not logically
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/vandeveer01.htm - 22.9kb
26. They Are Us, by Geza Teleki
concern. In the United States, where captive census data are most
readily available, about 2,000 of 3,000 confined chimpanzees exist
in biomedical facilities. It is indeed a sad statement on human
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/teleki01.htm - 24.1kb
27. Against Zoos, by Dale Jamieson
can be learned by studying animals that are kept in
the unnatural conditions that obtain in most zoos. Others have
argued that captive animals are more interesting research subjects
than are wild
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/jamieson01.htm - 34.7kb
28. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
Instincts of
Animals).[6]
In this book he rejected Descartes' concept of Animal-machine and
argued (translated into modern terminology): (1) Animals have
sense organs similar to ours
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/kortlandt01.htm - 40.8kb
Information Centre of