A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy : the human cost of the animal rights movement
Title:
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy : the human cost of the animal rights movement
Author:
Smith, Wesley J.
ISBN:
9781594033469
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York [etc.] : Encounter Books, 2010
Physical Description:
xiii, 312 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Foreword / by Dean Koontz -- Introduction -- Part I: "For the animals" -- Animal advocacy isn’t what it used to be -- "All animals are equal" -- Animals are people too -- Let it begin with apes -- Here comes the judge -- The Silver Spring monkey case -- The death of a thousand cuts -- Proselytizing children -- Part II: By any means necessary -- Advocating terror -- Tertiary targeting -- Praising with faith condemnation -- Murder they wrote? -- Part III: For the people -- Animal rights vs. medical research -- Our system of animal research -- Ensuring the proper care of lab animals -- Meat is not murder -- Fur, hunting, and zoos -- The importance of being human.
Abstract:
For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.
Subject:
| Animal rights |
| Human-animal relationships |
| Animal welfare |
Summary:
For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.