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Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

Gary L. Francione

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Foreword, by Gary SteinerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Abolition of Animal Use Versus the Regulation of Animal Treatment1. Animals-Property or Persons?2. Reflections on Animals, Property, and the Law and Rain Without Thunder3. Taking Sentience Seriously4. Equal Consideration and the Interest of Nonhuman Animals in Continued Existence: A Response to Professor Sunstein5. The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research: Necessity and Justification6. Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals7. Comparable Harm and Equal Inherent Value: The Problem of the Dog in the LifeboatReference Guide to Selected Topics

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Key concepts: Sentience, Animal ethics, Animal rights, Harm, Animal welfare, Pet therapy, Environmental ethics, Animal-assisted therapy