Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective
Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective by Michael P. T. Leahy
Publisher: Routledge | 1993 | ISBN: 0415103169 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Publisher: Routledge | 1993 | ISBN: 0415103169 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
The Western world is currently gripped by an obsessive concern for the rights of animals - their uses and abuses. In this book, Leahy argues that this is a movement based upon a series of fundamental misconceptions about the basic nature of animals.
This is a radical philosophical questioning of prevailing views on animal rights, which credit animals with a self-consciousness like ours. Leahy's conclusions have implications for issues such as bloodsports, meat eating and fur trading.