This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing

Legislation relating to animals has ancient origins and in many civilizations certain species have held particular significance, be it religious, cultural, nutr

Argues that the way humans treat animals results from the contradiction between the ideas that animals have some rights, but that they are also property, and of

Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He t

By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, the author explores the implications for