Animal Rights in the Light of Animal Cognition.
The issue as to whether animals have rights is a complex, divisive issue that is apt to generate debates. While there are many reasons for the unhappy state of affairs, in Western cultures, a fundamental underlying reason has to do with the fact that the issue of the moral status of nonhuman animal...
| Publicado en: | Social Alternatives Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 12 - 19 |
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Social Alternatives
2003 First Quarter
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