Animals, Politics and Morality by Robert Garner - 9780719035753

Manchester University Press

Animals, Politics and MoralityAuthor(s): Robert Garner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9780719035753, 978-0719035753\nSynopsis\n\""What gives the book distinction is Garner's comprehensive grasp of and sympathy with this subject.\""--New Statesman and Society \""Thorough and compelling.\""--Political Studies \""Meticulously researched...should be regarded as a standard text for teachers and undergraduates.\""--Talking Politics \""Leads the way through this labyrinth of moral mazes.\""--New Scientist Our treatment of, and attitudes towards, animals vary from respect and concern at one end of the scale to cruelty and neglect at the other. Acts of violence to animals are countered by acts of violence on the behalf of animals. This book is about these apparently contradictory responses. It seeks to examine moral theories which endeavour to tell us how we ought to treat animals as well as how individuals an.