On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth - Softcover

Hall, Lee

 
9780976915935: On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0976915936 ISBN 13: 9780976915935
Verlag: Nectar Bat Pr, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Sensing the need for fresh ideas in advocacy, and the importance of making animal-rights theory relevant in a time of biotechnology, rapid extinctions and climate change, On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth challenges us to think of ourselves and other conscious beings in new ways. This book takes the creative and necessary step of calling for a merging of ecological awareness and animal advocacy. It asks us to imagine and appreciate the dignity of free communities of animals thriving in their habitats.

As a society shifts to respect animals on their terms, its judges and lawmakers will stop regarding the environment as props and scenery on the stage of humanity s drama. They will begin to take the interests of all its living inhabitants seriously. This work explains why the shift is within humanity s reach, and how it will come through an animal-advocacy movement that s no longer limited to generating pity for Earth s other beings, or looking for ways to show how cruel we are to them, or taking steps to make their controlled lives less stressful. On Their Own Terms is an invitation to a movement that can ensure the triumph of animals natural freedom and power, and a practical handbook for the advocate who takes up the challenge.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lee Hall has written, taught and worked in the area of human migration and refugee law and the field of animal law, and is Vice President of Legal Affairs for Friends of Animals, whose successes have included a strong record of community-based advocacy, protections for tropical birds, and the complete renovation of a primate refuge. Prior publications by Lee Hall include Dining With Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine (co-authored with Priscilla Feral) and Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror. Animal advocacy, Lee Hall believes, needs a fresh perspective, and with it, new kinds of communication. On Their Own Terms offers a fresh take on animal rights, and a blueprint for effective advocacy.

Aus dem Klappentext

What does it mean to be human? Do we really rule this world, or are we members of a larger community on it, our destiny inevitably woven with that of other animals? Do unexpected interactions and untamed places worry us or excite us? What do our answers tell us about the meaning and future of life on Earth? Sensing the need for fresh ideas in advocacy, and the importance of making animal-rights theory relevant in a time of biotech, rapid extinctions and climate change, On Their Own Terms is a challenge to think of ourselves and other conscious beings in new ways. It calls for a merging of ecological awareness and animal advocacy. It asks us to imagine and appreciate the dignity of free communities of animals thriving in their habitats, as well as the dignity that resides in the soul of all vital movements for rights.As a society shifts to respect animals on their terms, its judges and lawmakers will stop regarding the environment as props and scenery on the stage of humanity's drama. They will begin to take the interests of all its living inhabitants seriously. This shift is within our reach. It will come through an animal-advocacy movement that's no longer limited to generating pity for Earth's other beings, or looking for ways to show how cruel we are to them, or taking steps to make their controlled lives less stressful. On Their Own Terms is an invitation to a movement that can ensure the triumph of animals' natural freedom and power."In this fascinating and illuminating book, Lee Hall calls for a holistic animal-rights movement: one that ensures the viability and autonomy of free-roaming deer, elk, horses and burros; one that fosters tolerance and respect for cougars, bobcats and jaguars, bears, coyotes and wolves and other risky animals. This work calls upon us to seek and celebrate a world where fish can swim, free in clean waters, and bees and birds can fly in peace. And it offers a plan to make it happen.Hall's work challenges us to examine long-held personal biases, prejudices and ideas, and pushes us to ask hard moral questions of ourselves and those around us. To shine the light of day upon our better selves and burn away the ego that prevents us from allowing true freedom to exist.Not content with the well-worn anti-cruelty concept, this daring view of animal rights would stop abuses before they could start. Rather than use certain animals' response to training, or to the conditions of a farm, as proof of moral or legal worth, the project of connecting animal rights with genuine freedom supports the interests of all conscious beings to live liberated, unmolested, uncontrolled, untracked and peacefully on their own terms." Harold Brown, former beef and dairy farmer; founder of FarmKind.org

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Verlag
Nectar Bat Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0976915936
ISBN 13 
9780976915935
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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