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Rattling the Cage

Hardcover • 2000 • English

Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals

By Steven M. Wise

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About the book

While the popular animal rights movement gains ever-increasing momentum, in the courts the dark ages prevail. The evolution of law that has brought fundamental rights to the most defenseless humans has yet to begin for other species. A human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys a large array of legal rights. But a chimpanzee—a creature who can communicate with language, count, understand the minds of others, feel a variety of emotions, live in a complex culture, and make and use tools—has...Show more

Violence and abuse in society
Animals and society
Ethical issues and debates

Book details

ISBN

9780738200651

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Rattling the Cage

Format

Hardcover

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