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    Animals Property & The Law
    Animals Property & The Law
    Animals Property & The Law
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    Animals Property & The Law

    By Gary Francione

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    "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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemple University Press
    Release dateJun 20, 2012
    ISBN9781439905104
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      Compelling evidence and arguments as to how the property status of non-humans renders animal welfare laws meaningless, and presents a quasi-insurmountable obstacle to their inclusion in the moral community.Indespensible reading for anyone who considers themselves an animal rights activist.

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