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At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3
million animals in experiments-a normalization of the unthinkable
on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death,
animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our
time. Given today's deeper understanding of animal sentience, the
contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a
special moral consideration that precludes their use in
experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins
with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and
comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal
experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage
with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The
essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal
perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times
to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's
painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at
a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal
Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful
challenge to human cruelty.
In "Beyond Animal Rights," Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams
introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical
discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven
essays from "Beyond Animal Rights" are joined by nine new
articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a
new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within
feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights.
Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights
doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine
bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our
relationships with animals and propose a link between the
continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature.
Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the
mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions,
this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of
the feminist-care tradition.
Reimagining a Place for the Wild contains a diverse collection of
personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild
creatures of the American West and critical essays that reveal
wildlife's essential place in western landscapes. Gleaned from
historians, journalists, biologists, ranchers, artists,
philosophers, teachers, and conservationists, these narratives
expose the complex challenges faced by wild animals and those
devoted to understanding them. Whether discussing keystone species
like grizzly bears and gray wolves or microfauna swimming the
thermal depths of geysers, these accounts reflect the authors'
expertise as well as their wonder and respect for wild nature. The
writers do more than inform our sensibilities; their narratives
examine both humanity's conduct and its capacity for empathy toward
other life. A selection of photos and paintings punctuates the
volume. This collection sprang from the Reimagine Western
Landscapes Symposium held at the University of Utah's
Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center in
Centennial Valley, Montana. These testaments join a chorus of
voices seeking improved relations with the western wild in the
twenty-first century.
This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other
Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview
that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger
field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important
publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with
intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race,
disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism,
heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by
and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into
three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from
leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment
can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human
world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference
and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the
second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well
as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist
ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies,
feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist
contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries
and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the
importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason;
and work to undo the logic of domination and its material
implications.
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Livestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its
kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have
little idea how eating animal-based foods harm animals, our health
and our planet. We want to believe the animals we eat do not suffer
pain, injury, live good lives and eating them is a trade-off for
the care we afford them. We accept the illnesses we suffer are
simply a consequence of getting old. We want to believe our food
choices do not cause rainforest and ocean deforestation. We are
told farmers are the guardians of the countryside, yet our
landscape is over-cultured and biologically dysfunctional, and our
environment polluted by livestock farming. Livestock's Longer
Shadow, cuts through the noise for anyone wanting to know how we
really treat animals, our health and our planet through the ways we
farm and consume animals, through a UK lens. Tim Bailey is an
Environmental Scientist and one of the UK's leading and most
prominent regulatory farm pollution experts. He brings together all
aspects of the UK's animal-based farming and food system, from farm
to fork, documents its devastation and provides us with a kinder,
more compassionate, sustainable and healthier way forward. In
sounding the alarm on the paradigms of animal-based food
production, the author uses his own first-hand experience of the
impacts of livestock farming from a career regulating the industry
spanning over 30-years.
'One of history's most impressive field studies; an instant animal
classic' TIME Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research
provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the
early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees
in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy.
More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic
interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in
normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the
key isues in this sometimes acrimonious debate.
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