Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

• Issues surrounding animal rights are of huge general interest, but are almost always presented in terms of a highly emotive, polarized debate between extremists
• This book explores the reasoned arguments for and against animal rights of various kinds
• Intellectually disciplined but highly accessible
• Other books on the subject are either too scholarly or too polemical in their approach
• Specific issues, such as animal research, the keeping of animals in zoos, meat-eating, and keeping pets, are dealt with individually

Readership: A general audience interested in the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights, as well as professionals whose work involves animals or animal rights issues.

David DeGrazia, Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, Washington DC

Preface
1: Introduction to the Issues
2: The Moral Status of Animals
3: What Animals are Like
4: The Harms of Suffering, Confinement, and Death
5: Meat-Eating
6: Keeping Pets and Zoo Animals
7: Animal Research
8: Epilogue