Animal Rights Concerns

In Defense of Animals

Author: Peter Singer, Tom Regan,
ISBN-nr: 63113896
Category: Animal Rights Issues
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In Defense of Animals

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Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement by Peter Singer
Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Animal Liberation, which has been described as 'the bible of the new animal rights movements'. His other books include Practival Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Animlal Factories (with Jim Mason) and most recently, with Deane Wells, The Reproduction Revolution. He continues to work actively with the animal liberation movement in Australia.

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan
Tom Regan is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he has twice been named Outstanding Teacher and, in 1977, was selected Alumni Distinguished Professor. He has written or helped to edit ten books, including The Case for Animal Rights and All that Dwell Therein.

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The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals by Marian Stamp Dawkins
Marian Stamp Dawkins is Turo in Biological Sciences and Fellow of Somervill College, Oxford. She teaches animal behaviour in the Animal Behaviour Research Group of the Department of Zoology and researches into the behaviour fo hens, with an emphasis on behavioural measures of welfare.
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Good Dogs and Other Animals by Stephen R.L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark is Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of Aristotle's Man, The Moral Status of Animals, The Nature of the Beast and From Athens to Jerusalem.
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Persons and Non-Person by Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley, formerly Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is the author of Beast and Man, Heart and Mind, Wickedness, Animals and Why They Matter and, with Judith Hughes, Women's Choices: Philosophical Problems Facing Feminism.

Images of Death and Life : Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option by Harriet Schleifer
Harriet Schleifer is as social and political activst, who works parttime as a freelance photographer and translator. She is the co-founder of Quebec's Animal Liberation Collective, and an editor of Agenda.
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Speciesism in the Laboratory by Ricard D. Ryder
Richard D. Ryder is chairman of the Animal Experimentation Advisory Committee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and chairman of the Liberal Animal Welfare Group. He is the author of Speciesism and Victims of Science and co-editor to Animal Rights : A Symposium.
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Brave New Farm? by Jim Mason
Jim Mason is an attorney and freelance journalist. He is also co-author, with Peter Singer, of Animal Factories; a founder of Animal Rights Network, Inc, a non-profit organization that publishes educational material for aniaml rights groups; and both founder and editor-inchief of Agenda, a bi-monthly news magazine for animal rights activists.
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Against Zoos by Dale Jamieson
Dale Jamieson is Assistant Professor fo Philosophy and Associate of the Center for the Study of Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado. He has published articles on ethical aspects of the treatment of animals, on aesthetics, and on the philosophy of language.
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Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival by Lewis Regenstein
Lewis Regenstein is vice-president of the Fund fo Animals in Atlanta, Georgia, and author of The Politics of Extinction: The Story of the World's Endangered Wildlife and America the Poisoned: How Deadly Chemicals are Destroying Our Environment, Our Wildlife - and Ourselves, both about subjects on which he lectures at colleges throughout the USA. He has served as president of the Monitor Consortium, a coalition of conservation and animal-protection organizations in Washington DC and he has contributed articles to several leading newspapers.
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The Silver Spring Monkeys by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione
Alex Pacheco co-founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) along with Ingrid Newkirk in the USA in 1980. They and PETA often serve as spokespeople for teh ALF and are active in sponsoring civil disobedience training sessions for animal rights. Anna Fracione who worked with A. Pacheco on his contributino to the present volume, is a former editor of Peta News.
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The Island of the Dragon by Dexter L. Cate
Dexter L. Cate is a high school teacher and environmental activist from Hilo, Hawaii. He has worked with Greenpeace and the fund for Animals on several projects involving protection of whales and dolphins. He is currently writing children's stories to promote the cause of Cetaceans.
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A Matter of Change by Donald J. Barnes
Donald J. Barnes is director of the Washington DC office of the National Antivivisecton Society. Having studied psychology at the University of Colorado and Ohio State University, he worked first as a clinical psychologist and then as a research psychologist at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, before rejecting vivisection to work with the animal rights movement.
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Animal Rights in the Political Arena by Clive Hollands
Clive Hollands is Director of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisecton and Secretary to the St Andrew Animal Fund. He also holds a number of other appointments, including Secretary to the Committee for the Reform of Animal Experimentation, and is an Advisory Director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. He is author of Compassion is the Buglre: The Struggle for Animals Rights and a contributor to Animal Rights: A Symposium and Human Education: A Symposium.
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'They Clearly Now See the Link':Militant Voices by Philip Windeatt
Philip Windeatt is a journalist and film researcher. He was co-film-maker and reseracher for The Animals Film, directoed by Victor Schonfeld, which was transmitted by Channel Four Television in November 1982, and he is the author of The Hunt and the Anti-Hunt.
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Fighting to Win by Henry Spira
Henry Spira co-ordinates coalitions to abolish the Draize rabbit eye and LD50 tests. He has been a merchant seaman, an auto assembly line worker, a jounalist and a teacher. He was active in campaigns for civil rights and trade union democracy.
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