Second nature: The animal-rights controversy

By Alan Herscovici

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773754989
• ISBN13: 9780773754980
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Stoddart
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A must-read

This is an excellently researched and argued position on the phenomenon of animal rights. I would love to see an updated edition, as the profits for the animal rights media industry have grown exponentially since the publication of this book.

Better late than never

I just discovered and read this book and I am very pleased. It is an amazingly civil discussion of the many, many unfounded or badly conceived claims of antimal rights/liberation advocates, concerning the alleged mistreatments of animals in zoos, slaughterhouses, by hunters, and mink fur cultivators and many more. The stats in the book are a bit dated now but when it appeared they showed beyond any reasonable doubt that the alarmist claims of Peter Singer, PETA, the Greens, & Co. were way off. The author also takes a refreshingly unapologetic pro-human stance, quite unintimidated by the sentimentalist pleas of Singer & Co. about how speicieist and selfish it is to recognize ourselves as superior among the animals. As if other living beings didn't advance themselves by their very instincts. (So, why then should we not do it as a matter of our free choice?) All in all this is a neglected work very much worth reading even today, nearly 20 years after its publication.