Animals, property, and the law /
""Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William M. Kunstler in the Foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to p...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1995
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| Series: | Ethics and action.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Legal welfarism: the consequences of the property status of animals
- Status of animals as property
- Problem: unnecessary suffering and the humane treatment of property
- Dominion of humans over animals, the defects of animals, and the common law
- Two examples of legal welfarism
- Exclusion of animal interests from legal consideration: the doctrine of standing
- Laws and rights: claims, benefits, interests and the instrumental status of animals
- General application of the theory: anticruelty statutes.
- Purposes of anticruelty statutes
- Anticruelty statutes and the protection of the institutionalized exploitation of animals
- Specific application of the theory: the regulation of animal experimentation
- Animal experimentation: animal property and human benefit
- Federal Animal Welfare Act
- Administrative regulation of the Animal Welfare Act
- Animal Welfare Act in the courts
- Alternative to legal welfarism.
