Antlion Pit Bookstore: Human Treatment of Animals: Animal Rights and Welfare

The Antlion Pit Bookstore
Human Treatment of Animals: Animal Rights and Welfare

	Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. Animal Liberation, originally published in 1975, was "the first modern work to argue that those who oppose human suffering must oppose inflicting suffering on animals" [publisher's description]. While perhaps not as philosophically sophisticated as Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights (see below), Singer's book is revelatory in its discussion of the ethics of modern meat production and the use of animals in scientific, miltary, and commercial research.
	Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by H. Peter Steeves (Introduction), Tom Regan.
	Animal Rights and Human Obligations by Tom Regan and Peter Singer (Editors). "Edited by the two leading philosophers in the animal protection movement, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of historical and contemporary writings that address both the nature of nonhuman animals as well as our duties to them."
	Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species by Alan Green. "Zoos are places where animals are protected, kept safe from the ravages of the outside world and sheltered from extinction, right? Not necessarily, writes investigative reporter Alan Green, who takes his readers behind the bars in Animal Underworld to tell an unsettling tale of deception and cruelty."
	Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams (Editors).
	The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan. The Case for Animal Rights (1984) is the most thorough treatment of the subject of animal rights yet published. Regan examines the major philosophical issues that underlie human treatment of animals, and offers a thoughtful, rationally articulated, moral theory of animal rights.
	Disposable Animals: Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway Pets by Craig Brestrup. "Unquestionably the most thoughtful work ever written on the tragic practice of 'euthanizing' healthy companion animals. Not everyone will agree with its findings. But no one who truly cares about companion animals can ignore the daunting challenge the book places before us." [Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights]
	Ethics on the Ark: Zoos, Animal Welfare and Wildlife Conservation edited by Bryan G. Norton, Michael Hutchins, Elizabeth F. Stevens, and Terry L. Maple; foreword by David Ehrenfeld. "Zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers present perspectives on the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem is the most important focus in conservation efforts."
	Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? by Gary L. Francione, Alan Watson. "Francione, probably the leading legal scholar in the field, builds his case . . . [with] cool reasoning and absence of rhetoric." [Atlantic Monthly]
	Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals by Steven M. Wise, Jane Goodall. "In this witty, moving, and impeccably researched book, Steven Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of apes should at last entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. Rattling the Cage has everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions of others who care deeply about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights."
	Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals by C. Ray Greek, Jean Swingle Greek DVM, Jane Goodall. The authors, a medical doctor and a veterinarian, "spent a decade studying comparative anatomy and physiology, reviewing treatment notes, and perusing scientific literature as well as medical history books. Their work resulted in Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, a book that focuses on the science of [the] hotly debated topic" of animal testing.
	Shopping Guide for Caring Consumers 2005: A Guide to Products That Are Not Tested on Animals by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. "A comprehensive directory of cosmetics, household, and personal care product companies that have made a compassionate commitment not to test on animals. More than 500 cruelty-free companies with updated listings of products, toll-free numbers, availability, and much more."