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More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author Tom Regan is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position

Collection of historical, theoretical and applied articles on the ethical considerations in the treatment of animals by human beings.

Religions and the rights of animals / John Bowker -- The use of animals in science / Sidney Gendin -- Judaism and animal experimentation / J. David Bleich -- The place of animals in creation / Andrew Linzey -- The relevance of animal experimentation to Roman Catholic ethical methodology / James Gaffney -- Animal experimentation / Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri -- Hindu perspectives on the use of animals in science / Basant K. Lal -- Non-injury to animals / Christopher Chapple -- Of animals and man / Rodney L. Taylor

The moral basis of vegetarianism -- Utilitarianism, vegetarianism, and animal rights -- Animal experimentation -- Animal rights, human wrongs -- Why whaling is wrong -- An examination and defense of one argument concerning animal rights -- Animals and the law -- What sorts of beings can have rights? -- The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic -- Environmental ethics and the ambiguity of the Native Americans' relationship with nature

In the space I have at my disposal here I can only sketch, in the barest outline, some of the main features of the book Its main themes-and we should not be surprised by this-involve asking and answering deep, foundational moral questions about what morality is, how it should be understood, and what is the best moral theory, all considered. I hope I can convey something of the shape I think this theory takes. The attempt to do this will be (to use a word a friendly critic once used to describe my work) cerebral, perhaps too cerebral. But this is misleading. My feelings about how animals are sometimes treated run just as deep and just as strong as those of my more volatile compatriots. Philosophers do-to use the jargon of the day have a right side to their brains. If it's the left side we contribute (or mainly should), that's because what talents we have reside there.