What Are Animal Rights For? (What Is It For?)

Cooke, Steve

ISBN 10: 1529228417 / ISBN 13: 9781529228410

Published by Bristol University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Are Animal Rights For? (What Is It For?)
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529228417
• ISBN 13: 9781529228410
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 1050 grams

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Synopsis

How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering?

The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the planet. These questions are becoming more pressing as livestock farming exerts an ever-greater toll on the planet and the animals themselves, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows why animals ought to have greater rights and what the world might look like if they did.

About the Author

Steve Cooke is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leicester. Previously, he held positions on animal rights theory and environmental politics at the University of Sheffield and Keele University and was the Society for Applied Philosophy’s 30th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellow for a project on animal rights and environmental terrorism.