Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach

Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explores animal rights issues from a perspective that "requires the abolition of animal exploitation and rejects the notion that animal use is acceptable if we treat animals 'humanely.' "

Author: Author Gary L. Francione is a law and philosophy professor at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.

Blawg Related Categories: Animal Law • Rutgers University-Newark • Law Professor

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