Animals, property, and the law / Gary L. Francione ; with a foreword by William M. Kunstler.
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Ethics and action.
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Table of Contents:
- Legal welfarism: the consequences of the property status of animals
- Status of animals as property
- Problem: unnecessary suffering and the humane treatment of property
- Dominion of humans over animals, the defects of animals, and the common law
- Two examples of legal welfarism
- Exclusion of animal interests from legal consideration: the doctrine of standing
- Laws and rights: claims, benefits, interests and the instrumental status of animals
- General application of the theory: anticruelty statutes.
- Purposes of anticruelty statutes
- Anticruelty statutes and the protection of the institutionalized exploitation of animals
- Specific application of the theory: the regulation of animal experimentation
- Animal experimentation: animal property and human benefit
- Federal Animal Welfare Act
- Administrative regulation of the Animal Welfare Act
- Animal Welfare Act in the courts
- Alternative to legal welfarism.