Do Animals Have Rights? (EBOOK:PDF)
UK £7.99,
UK Publication September 2009
ISBN 1840468181
Ebook
Page Extent 257
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In December 1998, activist Barry Horne lay dying in prison on hunger strike. A convicted arsonist, his intention was to become a martyr to the animal rights cause.
On the outside, Robin Webb of the Animal Liberation Front read out a hit list: if Horne died, ten 'vivisectionists' would be assassinated. Colin Blakemore, Oxford Professor of Physiology, was one. An expert in vision and the early development of the brain, some of Blakemore's research involves experiments on cats, including sewing kittens' eyes shut. He is also a vocal supporter of animal experimentation - and no stranger to threats, a regular recipient of letter bombs and razors from animal rights activists. Animal rights often inspires human extremes.
In this highly accessible book Alison Hills steers a careful path between often impractical poles of thought and, for once, provides a practical and liveable idea of the ethics of animals. Telling the story of how animals have been thought of through human history, she argues in particular that we must distinguish between species - all animals are not, in fact, equal.
A timely call for calm thinking about ourselves - and other animals.
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'she produces well-written analyses of the issues, often drawing on arguments from evolutionary biology as well as philosophy and other disciplines, that lead to clear conclusions' animalresearch.info
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Alison Hills studied philosophy at Cambridge and now teaches philosophy at the University of Bristol.
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