David DeGrazia • 2002 Animal Rights is designed to give intelligent non-specialists a foothold in complex fields. It is a concise, balanced, academically rigorous overview of the major positions, arguments, and counterarguments in animal rights theory. No advocacy, no pleading, just a clearly mapped overview. Context DeGrazia is elegantly neutral here. Wanna see him let loose? Read Taking Animals Seriously . Brace yourself...

Rick serves the family spaghetti, which Morty accidentally discovers came from a person's body. After a journey of twists, cognitive dissonance and turns, Rick has one last terminally ill person commit suicide on live TV. Imdb link Release date: November 5, 2023 Director: Lucas Gray Context The episode asks questions about animal rights and the ethics of eating meat by depicting food that comes from suffering.

By David Favre • 1983 (2019, 3rd edition) The law school casebook for animal law. Favre (who has taught animal law at Michigan State for over forty years) assembles cases, statutes, and essay materials that expose how the legal system actually treats animals: as property, with limited and inconsistent protections. The book covers anti-cruelty laws, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, constitutional issues, wildlife regulation, and the emerging attempts to secure legal rights for

By Sonia Waisman, Pamela Frasch & Katherine Hessler • 2020 (3rd edition) A compact but comprehensive overview of how the law actually treats animals: property doctrine, anti-cruelty statutes, wildlife regulations, agricultural exemptions, and the emerging frontier of animal rights litigation. Written by three professors from Lewis & Clark Law School's Center for Animal Law Studies, it's designed for law students and interested non-lawyers alike. Why it matters Most people ass

By Sherry Colb & Michael Dorf • 2016 A legal scholar and a constitutional law professor tackle one of the most fraught intersections in ethics: what do abortion rights and animal rights have to do with each other? Colb and Dorf argue that the same moral reasoning that supports abortion rights (bodily autonomy and sentience as the basis for moral consideration) also supports animal rights. Why it matters This book is useful for anyone who wants to think rigorously about cross-

By Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka • 2011 A genuinely original contribution to a field that often rehashes the same debates. Donaldson and Kymlicka accept the basic case for animal rights - and then ask: what comes next? Their answer is political theory. They propose a framework where domesticated animals are citizens (with corresponding rights and protections), wild animals are sovereign nations (whose territory we shouldn't invade), and liminal animals (urban wildlife, feral

By Tom Regan • 1983 In this early (now bordering 'vintage') classic, Regan argues that animals have inherent value. Not because of what they can feel, but because "they are the subjects of a life," with desires, memories, and a perspective of their own. This means they have rights that are not overridden by calculations of pleasure and pain. You can't justify harming one animal to benefit others, any more than you can justify harming one human to benefit others. Why it matter

David DeGrazia • 1996 In this rigorously academic follow-up to Animal Rights , DeGrazia argues for "critical anthropomorphism" : taking animal minds seriously by measuring behaviour and biology. The book engages deeply with philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and ethical theory, and builds a coherent ethical framework for moral consideration of non-human animals. Why it matters DeGrazia builds his case from the ground up, addressing sceptics on their own terms. And, while

A young man begins investigating the underworld of "factory farming" and soon discovers a growing political and intellectual movement that considers animals as important as humans. Imdb link Release date: 18 September 2013 Director: Mark Devries Producer: Mark Devries Cinematography: Mark Devries, Alanna Andrews, Alex Melonas Running time: 1h 34m

Philosophers, scientists, artists, and activists provide their insight and opinion on the role of animals in society, and investigate what a post-meat world would mean for the environment. Imdb link Release date: 2017 Director: Marc Pierschel Cinematography: Marc Pierschel, Jeff Wirth Executive producers: Marc Pierschel, Arabella Gais, Holger Recktenwald, Lee Cash Running time: 1h 34m

Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U.S. territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U.S. Imdb link Release date: 25 January 2016 Directors: Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker Producers: Chris Hegedus, Frazer Pennebaker, Rosadel Varela Distributed by: First Run Features Cinematography: Chris Hegedus Running time: 1h 31m