Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know® - What Everyone Needs To Know®

In this compelling volume, Paul Waldau expertly navigates, in an even-handed survey, the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. He looks at the concerns surrounding different types of animals, the philosophical and legal arguments that form the basis of animal rights, the history of animal protection, the political and social realities facing animals today, key figures and organizations in the animal rights movement, andanimal rights legislation and public policy around the world. With its multidisciplinary, non-ideological focus and all-inclusive coverage, Animal Rights represents the definitive survey of the animal rights movement.