Confronting Cruelty: Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement

by Matt Beaumont and Lyle Munro

Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004143114
• ISBN13: 9789004143111
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"