TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zamir,Tzachi
TI  - Ethics and the beast: an speciesist argument for animal liberationism 
SN  - 9781400828135 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV4708 .Z36 2007eb
U1  - 179/.3 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Animal welfare
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Speciesism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ethics and beasts -- Is speciesism opposed to liberationism? -- Why animals matter -- Killing -- Killing for pleasure -- Killing for knowledge -- Using -- Use or exploitation? -- Culinary use -- Therapeutic use -- Recreational use
N2  - Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And we would have to apply these beliefs in an all-or-nothing way. But in Ethics and the Beast, Tzachi Zamir makes the radical argument that animal liberation doesn't require such radical arguments--and that liberation could be accomplished in a flexible and pragmatic way. By making a case for liberation that is based primarily on common moral intuitions and beliefs, and that therefore
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sv9f
ER  -