By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, the author explores the implications for

Argues that the way humans treat animals results from the contradiction between the ideas that animals have some rights, but that they are also property, and of

Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about othe

A survey of animal rights issues addresses a variety of topics surrounding research animals, companion animals, wild animals, work animals, and animals used for

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing