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Title: Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights by Tom Regan ISBN: 0-7425-3352-2 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth a read
Comment: Tom Regan,is a professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University, and he doesnt come off as some goody two shoes who has all the answers, but the questions he asks and how he came to his views are what made the book interesting to me. In the beginning he thought like most of us that animals were here for our convenience.
He notes his meat eating, zoo visiting and leather, fur purchases, which makes him more 'real' to me since I do and have done the same. And yes he did read the works of Mohandas Gandhi
and Gandhi's views on the treatment of animals.
He writes of the factory farms and how the majority of animals are raised for food and entertainment. And how science misuses millions of animals yearly. Rats and mice are animals.
Now I feel a tad hypocritical because I still eat meat. But I also live a rural existence and meat isn't a daily or often a weekly choice. And I have benefited from animals who were sacrificed for years so my son could have insulin as a baby. I wear leather shoes which I repair over and over.
The book has more positive than negative value. For me the issues that seemed to have no answer were how do you get billions of people world wide to stop eating animals, and what happens to all the domestic and farm animals in a perfect world who suddenly are not harvested for food? And what about animals that are killed to feed cats and dogs?
And what about the whole idea of the human animal being killed in wars? Or not being allowed to die from disease, but instead, often kept alive at a cost of millions per person?
Rating: 5
Summary: Taking the Place of Animal Liberation
Comment: Tom Regan has made his name through relentless philosophical rigor. However, Empty Cages is not written in the style of The Case for Animal Rights. In Empty Cages, Regan pulls out the core his philosophical argument and infuses it into a public friendly form. This book is written for the general public and is highly accessible. It is meant to speak not only to the animal rights faithful, but to those who have not fully considered the issue.
Among the highlights of this book is Regan's story about his personal relationship to animal rights. Regan tells of how his current views evolved, and in doing so empathizes those who have yet to make the move to animal rights. Regan's none judgmental style will make this work a remarkably effective tool in spreading the message of animal rights. Indeed, I believe Empty Cages can and should replace Singer's Animal Liberation as the flagship introduction to the movement.
If you're unsure about the merits of animal rights then read this book.
Those of us who already believe in animal rights need to put this book in the hands of friends, family, co-workers, and local libraries.
Rating: 5
Summary: the best intro. to what animal advocates believe, & why
Comment: This is a truly exceptional, and excellent, book. It is the best introduction to ethics and animals issues out there. Regan explains how he came to believe that animals have moral rights that make it wrong to eat, wear and experiment on them, and how he became involved in the growing movement to advance that cause. The book is really like no other; check out the book's companion webpage at http://tomregan-animalrights.com The book is highly readable and accessible, unlike a more standard strictly philosophical (and academic) discussion of the issues.
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Title: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully ISBN: 0312319738 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy by Tom Regan ISBN: 0742533549 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals by J. Moussaieff Masson ISBN: 034545281X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Animal Ethics Reader by Susan J. Armstrong, Richard G. Botzler, Susan Armstrong, Richard Botzler ISBN: 041527589X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Animals Like Us by Mark Rowlands ISBN: 1859843867 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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