Susan J. Armstrong - The Animal Ethics Reader

The Animal Ethics Reader is an acclaimed anthology containing both classic and contemporary readings, making it ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a thorough introduction to the central topics, controversies, and ethical dilemmas surrounding the treatment of animals, covering a wide range of contemporary issues, such as animal activism, genetic engineering, and environmental ethics.

The extracts are arranged thematically under the following clear headings:

• Theories of Animal Ethics
• Animal Capacities: Pain, Emotion, Consciousness
• Primates and Cetaceans
• Animals for Food
• Animal Experimentation
• Animals and Biotechnology
• Ethics and Wildlife
• Zoos and Aquariums
• Animal Companions
• Animal Law and Animal Activism

Readings from leading experts in the field including Peter Singer, Bernard E. Rollin, and Jane Goodall are featured, as well as selections from Tom Regan, Donald Griffin, Temple Grandin, Ben A. Minteer, Christine Korsgaard and Mark Rowlands. Classic extracts are well balanced with contemporary selections, helping to present the latest developments in the field.

This revised and updated third edition includes new readings on animal rights, captive chimpanzees, industrial farm animal production, genetic engineering, keeping cetaceans in captivity, animal cruelty, and animal activism. The third edition also is printed with a slightly larger page format and in an easier-to-read typeface.

Featuring contextualizing introductions by the editors, as well as study questions and further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter, this will be essential reading for any students taking a course in the subject.

With a new foreword by Bernard E. Rollin.

Susan J. Armstrong is Professor Emerita and 2004 Outstanding Professor at Humboldt State University in California. She has published widely on animal ethics and affiliated subjects and continues to be very concerned with animal welfare. With Richard G. Botzler, she edited Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence.

Richard G. Botzler is Professor Emeritus of Wildlife, Humboldt State University, in California, where he taught courses in wildlife diseases, environmental ethics, and general wildlife. He was HSUs outstanding professor in 1991, and California State University outstanding professor in 1992. His publications include topics in wildlife diseases and, with Susan J. Armstrong, Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence.

The Animal Ethics Reader

Third Edition

Edited by Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler

First published 2017
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Dedicated in gratitude for my children Tom, Summer, Alex and Emily

S.J.A.

Dedicated to:
our many students over the years who have stimulated our thinking and added so richly to our classes, and to my children: Emilisa, Tin, Dorothy, Sarah, and Thomas, with love and pride

R.G.B.