Animals Property & The Law.
Title:
Animals Property & The Law.
Author:
Francione, Gary.
ISBN:
9781439905104
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 pages)
Series:
Ethics And Action
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword by William M. Kunstler, Esq. -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Legal Welfarism: The Consequences of the Property Status of Animals -- Part I: The Status of Animals as Property -- 1. The Problem: "Unnecessary" Suffering and the "Humane" Treatment of Property -- 2. The Dominion of Humans over Animals, the "Defects" of Animals, and the Common Law -- 3. Two Examplese of Legal Welfarism -- 4. The Exclusion of Animal Interests from Legal Consideration-the Doctrine of Standing -- 5. Laws and Rights: Claims, Benefits, Interests, and the Instrumental Status of Animals -- Part I Conclusion -- Part II: A General Application of the Theory: Anticruelty Statutes -- 6. The Purpose of Anticruelty Statutes -- 7. Anticruelty Statutes and the Protection of the Institutionalized Exploitation of Animals -- Part II Conclusion -- Part III: A Specific Application of the Theory: The Regulation of Animal Experimentation -- 8. Animal Experimentation: Animal Property and Human "Benefit" -- 9. The Federal Animal Welfare Act -- 10. Administrative Regulation of the Animal Welfare Act -- 11. The Animal Welfare Act in the Courts -- Part III Conclusion -- Epilogue: An Alternative to Legal Welfarism? -- Explanation of Legal Citations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his 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 protect animals from exploitation? Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings. Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania. He thoroughly documents the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by U.S. law.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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