Animal rights activist

Titre
Animal rights activist

Carrie. Gleason

Sommaire
The fight for animal rights can be controversial. Modern champions for animal rights believe that animals should not be regarded as property, and they should not be used for food, clothing, for entertainment, or in scientific research. This illuminating book helps explain the difference between animal welfare and animal rights, and what "cruelty" is and who defines it. Young animal lovers will learn how they can fight for the protection and preservation of animals in a peaceful way.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2010

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Description matérielle
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Note générale
Includes index.

Table des matières
What are animal rights? -- What is an activist? -- Welfare or rights? -- History of animal rights -- Birth of animal rights -- Vegetarianism -- Animal testing -- Factory farming -- Fighting cruelty -- In the trenches -- What you can do -- Saving the animals.

Terme de vedette-matière
Animal rights activists -- United States.
 
Animal rights -- United States -- Vocational guidance.
 
Animal welfare -- United States.
 
Animal rights activists.
 
Animal rights.
 
Animal welfare.

Résumé
The fight for animal rights can be controversial. Modern champions for animal rights believe that animals should not be regarded as property, and they should not be used for food, clothing, for entertainment, or in scientific research. This illuminating book helps explain the difference between animal welfare and animal rights, and what "cruelty" is and who defines it. Young animal lovers will learn how they can fight for the protection and preservation of animals in a peaceful way.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780778747055
 
9780778746935

Informations de publication
New York, NY : Crabtree Pub., c2010.


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