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Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

open access: yesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1988
Animal liberationists tend to divide into two mutually antagonistic camps: animal welfarists, who share a utilitarian moral outlook, and animal rightists, who presuppose a structure of basic rights. However, the gap between these groups tends to be exaggerated by their allegiance to oversimplified versions of their favored moral frameworks.
L W Sumner
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Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Relations, 2023
In this article, we argue that animal rights and welfare are largely neglected at the United Nations (UN) and in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN Sustainability Agenda is not transformative because it lacks a serious (re-)consideration of
Andrea Schapper, Cebuan Bliss
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One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yesSpringerBriefs in Law, 2023
This is an open access book. Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as new human rights.
Stucki, Saskia.   +2 more
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Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

2018
In this chapter a distinction is made between animal welfare, for which a scientific approach is possible, and animal rights, which requires an ethical consideration. Our relationship with animals has changed most for food-producing animals, having evolved from one of necessity to one of exploitation of many of the managed animals.
Phillips, Clive J. C., Kluss, Katrina
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The Right Animal for the Right Experiment

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1970
THE RESEARCHER studying a disease of humans often attempts to produce an experimental model in one of the common laboratory animals. He then attempts to alter various factors in an effort to learn more of the disease state he has produced. The argument for this type of research is that with a normal animal, the changes which are introduced are ...
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Moral Rights and Animals

Inquiry, 1979
In Section I, the purely conceptual issue as to whether animals other than human beings, all or some, may possess rights is examined. This is approached via a consideration of the concept of a moral right, and by way of examining the claims of sentience, consciousness, capacities for pleasure and pain, having desires, possessing interests, self ...
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