Animal rights and human obligations / [edited by] Tom Regan, Peter Singer. [print]

Part I. Contemporary realities Down on the factory farm Peter Singer Experiments on animals Richard Ryder -- Part II. Animal and human nature God created man in His own image The Bible How humans differ from other creatures Aristotle Differences between rational and other creatures Saint Thomas Aquinas Animals are machines Rene Descartes A reply to Descartes Voltaire Of the reason of animals David Hume Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals Charles Darwin The language of animals Michel De Montaigne Teaching chimpanzees to communicate Peter Jenkins The concept of beastliness Mary Midgley -- Part III. Do humans have obligations to other animals? Animals and slavery Aristotle Of eating of flesh Plutarch On killing living things and the duty to love irrational creatures Saint Thomas Aquinas Duties to animals Immanuel Kant A critique of Kant Arthur Schopenhauer A Utilitarian view Jeremy Bentham A defense of Bentham John Stuart Mill The ethic of reverence for life Albert Schweitzer The humanities of diet Henry S. Salt All animals are equal Peter Singer A defense of vivisection Robert J. White -- Part IV. Do animals have rights? Animals' rights Henry S. Salt Of the so-called rights of animals Joseph Rickaby Why animals do not have rights D.G. Ritchie Logic of the larder Henry S. Salt Can animals have rights? Joel Feinberg Do animals have a right to life? Tom Regan Do animals have a right to liberty? James Rachels Defending animals by appeal to rights Donald VanDeveer A reply to VanDeVeer James Rachels -- Epilogue A modest proposal Jonathan Swift The limits of Trooghaft Desmond Stewart.

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