scholarly journals Book Review: Animal Rights and Welfare: A Documentary and Reference Guide

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Michael L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Animal Liberation ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
American Society ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

Animal Rights and Welfare: A Documentary and Reference Guide is a collection of fifty-one primary source documents relating to the topics of animal rights and animal welfare. The preface states that these are separate and distinct philosophies: animal rights advocates such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal Liberation Front hold that humans and animals have the same rights (thereby precluding their use even as pets or assistive animals), whereas animal welfare adherents like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Humane Society endorse the use of animals for agriculture, work, biomedical research, etc., but in a manner that minimizes pain and suffering.

scholarly journals Book Review: Russian Revolution of 1917: The Essential Reference Guide

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Chris G. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Introductory Overview ◽  
Centennial Anniversary ◽  
Source Materials

Kalic and Brown’s Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of a handful of works published last year undoubtedly to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the historic event which it considers. Anyone familiar with “Essential Reference Guides” from ABC-CLIO will find this relatively nimble tome (only 257 pages) to be another reliable entry in the series. Sandwiched between three introductory overview essays and an assorted collection of over twenty English translated letters, correspondences, and other assorted primary source materials are the main ingredients of nearly one hundred traditional A–Z subject entries. 

“Nations Like Unto Yourselves”: An Inquiry into the Status of a General Principle of International Law on Animal Welfare

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 3-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
International Law ◽  
General Principle ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
The Status ◽  
Universal Ethic ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

SummaryThis article proposes that there is a general principle of international law concerning the humane treatment of animals. Preoccupation with “animal rights” has been associated with Western cultural imperialism masquerading as a universal ethic. Animal welfare is thus an instructive case study of what Jutta Brunnée and Stephen Toope have identified as the key challenge for international law, that of “construct[ing] normative institutions while admitting and upholding the diversity of peoples in international society.” This article applies the framework of interactional international law set out in Brunnée and Toope’s recent bookLegitimacy and Legality in International Law, while raising questions about the weight that their analysis accords to practice and their willingness to conclude that widely recognized principles to which states fail to adhere in practice lack legal force. The article also examines how laws prohibiting cruelty to animals have emerged precisely from an interactive cultural exchange between East and West, in particular, between England and India. It concludes that Brunnée and Toope’s framework, although it does not deal at any length with general principles of law (a source of international law in which practice plays a relatively minor role), is nevertheless a useful tool for understanding how a culturally contested principle fits into international law and ultimately supports the view that there is a general principle of international law concerning animal welfare.

Animal Rights

2015 ◽  
pp. 24-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary L. Francione ◽  
Anna E. Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Animal Liberation ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
The Law ◽  
Oxford Group

The term “animal rights” is used broadly and often inconsistently in discussions of animal ethics. This chapter focuses on seven topics: (1) the pre-nineteenth-century view of animals as things and the emergence of the animal welfare position; (2) the work of Lewis Gompertz and of Henry Salt; (3) the Vegan Society, the Oxford Group, and Peter Singer’s animal liberation theory; (4) Tom Regan’s animal rights theory; (5) the abolitionist animal rights theory; (6) animal rights and the law; and (7) animal rights as a social movement. Herein, “rights” describes the protection of interests irrespective of consequences. The chapter’s position that veganism (not consuming any animal products), is a moral baseline follows from the widely-shared recognition that animals have moral value and are not merely things; veganism is the only rational response to that recognition.

The Rights of Beasts in the Early Nineteenth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-248
Author(s):  
Jane Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Novel ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

This chapter argues that the parliamentary animal welfare campaign of the early nineteenth century, culminating in Martin’s Act (1822), was the heir to the radical movements of the 1790s. The literary representation of animals as feeling subjects, and the complex relationship between human and animal rights, both had profound effects on the anti-cruelty debate. Focusing on contributions by John Lawrence, an early exponent of legal rights for animals, Thomas Erskine, who introduced an unsuccessful Cruelty to Animals bill in 1809, and Margaret Cullen, who brought the debate about animals into the domestic novel, I show how they used and adapted radical political ideas in the service of animal welfare. The literature of animal subjectivity underpinned the anti-cruelty campaign and helped achieve legislation; but success depended on melding new attitudes with old hierarchies and turning away from the more radical implications of the reassessment of animal life.

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