Directors of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Professor Andrew Linzey and Dr. Clair Linzey, write this 100-page report concluding that fur farming should be legally prohibited.

Topics: Law and Policy, Philosophy and Ethics
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A concise summary of how the law regulates human uses and interactions with animals, cutting across numerous substantive areas of law and providing an analysis of the consideration and protection of...

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A personal and thought provoking manifesto regarding the process by which humans have cut themselves off from animals and the natural world, the extraordinarily negative effects this process has had...

Topics: Philosophy and Ethics, Attitudes and Activism
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Primarily a professional resource for those who work in shelters, this book examines and evaluates current research regarding animal and human behaviors associated with the intake, management and...

Topics: Animals as Companions
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Documenting the social and political struggles that resulted in slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches being pushed into the suburbs of American cities such as New York City and San Francisco and...

Topics: History
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Pushing back against the trend in philosophy of using animals as abstractions, the authors highlight animals’ experiences by having each chapter focus on a particular animal: orangutans and crisis...

Topics: Philosophy and Ethics
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An anthology addressing various aspects of animal cruelty, primarily, but not exclusively, from a criminological point of view.

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A collection of essays written by Fellows of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who participated in the 2018 Fifth Annual Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics, “Animal Ethics and Law: Creating...

Topics: Law and Policy, Philosophy and Ethics
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A collection of essays designed to advance philosophical thinking about attitudes toward and relationships with animals by bringing together new perspectives regarding animal ethics rooted in...

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First published in 1964, this seminal work first revealed to the general public the modern practice of raising animals for food in conditions of intensive confinement and the cruelty inherent in these...

Topics: Animals in Agriculture
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