Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

Introduction: What Are Animal Rights? PART I: CURRENT DEBATES 1. Animal Rights, One Step At A Time 2. Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives 3. Ethics Beyond Species and Beyond Instincts: A Reply to Richard Posner 4. Eating Meat and Eating People 5. Taking Animal Interests Seriously 6. Animals As Objects, or Subjects, of Rights 7. Drawing Lines 8. All Animals Are Not Equal: The Interface Between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS 9. Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law 10. A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership 11. Can Animals Sue? 12. Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights 13. Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life 14. "Beyond Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Non-Human Animals