1. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
the question as to whether animals have rights. If they do,
... it would seem an illegitimate invasion of animal rights to
kill and eat them, if, as seems to be the case, we can sustain
ourselves
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2. The Case for Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
that underlies the case for animal rights shows that the
animal rights movement is a part of, not antagonistic to, the
human rights movement. The theory that rationally grounds the
rights of animals
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3. Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement, by Peter Singer
mean
that animals have all the same rights as you and I have. animal
liberationists do not minimize the obvious differences between
most members of our species and members of other species. The
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4. Who's Like Us?, by Heta Häyry & Matti Häyry
secure their political rights in many countries, and this is the
way in which rights ought to be achieved.
There are
several critiques to be voiced against the view.
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5. All Animals Are Equal, by Peter Singer
of "The Rights of Animals" really has been used to parody the case
for women's Rights. When Mary Wollstonecraft, a forerunner of
later feminists, published her Vindication of the Rights of
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6. Animal Liberation at 30, by Peter Singer
about our treatment of animals are often in the
news. animal rights organizations are active in all the
industrialized nations. The US animal rights group called People
for the Ethical Treatment of
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7. Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
that some
animals can satisfy criteria for verbal communication, we can now
look for evidence of self-consciousness in these animals, with its
attendant sense of moral responsibility.
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8. The Wahokies, by Harlan B. Miller
thus cannot have rights. Of course they are sentient, intelligent
and self-conscious in a nonreflective way, but so are monkeys and
rats. We do not hesitate to experiment on rats in search of
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9. The Silver Spring Monkeys, by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione
SINGER (ed), In Defense of Animals , New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985, pp. 135-147
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I discovered Animal rights
in 1978, when I first entered a slaughterhouse and witnessed the
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10. Do Animals Have a Right to Life?, by Tom Regan
would also show that animals are possessors of it, whereas
arguments that might be used to show that animals do not have this
right would also show that not all human beings do either. Just as
in
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