In this Book
- Animals Property & The Law
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Temple University Press
"Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation?
Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings.
Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania. He thoroughly documents the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by U.S. law.
Table of Contents
- Title, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-vi
- Foreword by William M. Kunstler, Esq.
- pp. ix-xii
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xviii
- Part I: The Status of Animals as Property
- 3. Two Examplese of Legal Welfarism
- pp. 50-64
- Part I Conclusion
- pp. 115-116
- 6. The Purpose of Anticruelty Statutes
- pp. 119-133
- Part II Conclusion
- pp. 161-162
- Part III: A Specific Application of the Theory: The Regulation of Animal Experimentation
- 9. The Federal Animal Welfare Act
- pp. 185-207
- 11. The Animal Welfare Act in the Courts
- pp. 234-249
- Part III Conclusion
- pp. 250-252
- Epilogue: An Alternative to Legal Welfarism?
- pp. 253-264
- Explanation of Legal Citations
- pp. 265-268
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 331-344