Stephen Clark’s article The Rights of Wild Things from 1979 was the starting point for the consideration in the animal ethics literature of the so-called ‘predation problem’. Clark examines the response of David George Ritchie to Henry Stephens Salt, the first writer who has argued explicitly in favor of animal rights. Ritchie attempts to demonstrate—via reductio ad absurdum—that animals cannot...

Traditional theories of animal rights are based upon the argument that species membership is a morally arbitrary feature in ethical reasoning. Rather than base moral standing upon common humanity, animal rights theorists have claimed that all sentient creatures, or creatures above a certain level of sentience, belong to the same ethical community, and thus are rights bearers. In this way, anima...

Probably more than any other one thing, my article "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," has led to an increasingly acrimonious divorce between individualistic animal welfare ethics and holistic ecocentric ethics.! I think this estrangement is regrettable because it is divisive. Animal welfare ethicists and environmental ethicists have 163 overlapping concerns. From a practical point of vie...

Why does the radical right care so much about animals? In this study, we argue that salience of animal advocacy within can be explained by its compatibility with these parties’ broader ideological framework. By analysing official documents from party Sweden Democrats, find is shaped an core consisting nativism, authoritarianism and populism. The SD argues, for example, immigrants are more viole...

Abstract The emerging field of animal studies builds on ethical insights from the rights philosophies that involve an analogy between racism and speciesism, or discrimination based species. Analyzing recent works addressing human-animal relationships in Black studies, this essay contends it has been necessary for scholarship race to transcend order confront persistence anti-Black contemporary e...


 Animal rights advocates in the West decry mistreatment of animals, such as their use experimentation and, most notoriously, factory farming. They identify fact that animals are legally considered mere property source these abuses. also tend to view Abrahamic religions responsible for this paradigm and conflict with animal rights. The flashpoint context is battle over Jewish Muslim ritual...

Nonhuman interests are today routinely articulated in a register of ‘rights’. ‘Rights nature’ and ‘animal rights’ have expanded the vernacular liberal rights beyond human subject, thereby arguably entering realm ‘post-human rights’. For such to be enforced, however, they must recognised within legal order mediated by subjects speaking on behalf nonhuman ‘right-holders’. This article focuses mod...