Gary Francione

Why Veganism Matters

The Moral Value of Animals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why Veganism Matters presents the case for the personhood of nonhuman animals and for veganism in a clear and accessible way that does not require any philosophical or legal background. This book offers a persuasive and powerful argument for all readers who care about animals but are not sure whether they have a moral obligation to be vegan.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 125mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780231199612
• ISBN-10: 0231199619
• Artikelnr.: 59411405

Autorenporträt

Gary L. Francione is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University Law School and visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Lincoln (UK). He is the author of many books, including Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation (Columbia, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Our Conventional Wisdom-Animals as Quasi-Persons
2. Two Contemporary Approaches to Animal Personhood
3. Animals as Persons-a Matter of Sentience Alone
4. The Right Not to Be Property
5. Veganism as a Moral Imperative
Conclusion
Notes
Reference/Study Guide