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Defending Animal Rights Regan, Tom

Along with Peter Singer, Tom Regan philosophy, North Carolina State U is copremier of animal rights philosophy, a reputation established with The Case for Animal Rights 1985 This volume of shorter pieces reflects Regans thinking over the past decade Besides chapters on the meaning and repercussions of animal rights and animal liberation, two chapters address being an employee of an organization that experiments or uses animals Regans employer, he says, yearly kills thousands of animals Two other chapters compare animal rights to, on the one hand, the causes for gay and lesbian rights, and on the other, the rights of AfricanAmerican slaves Regans central thesis can be summed up as antiutilitarian and Kantian, and is opposed to those like Singer wanting animal liberation without necessarily advocating rights Regan argues that because nonhuman animals are similar to humans both, for example, believe, remember, intend, and experience fear, anger, and loneliness, the two groups have a basic moral right to respectful treatment Annotation c Book News, Inc, Portland, OR booknewscom