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Part I: Animal rights, moral theory and political strategy. Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- Animal rights: an eco-socialist view / Ted Benton -- Animal rights: an incremental approach / Gary L. Francione -- Part II: Medical science, agriculture and animal welfare. Partial protection: animal welfare and the law / Mike Radford -- To Farm without harm and choosing a humane diet: the bioethics of humane sustainable agriculture / Michael W. Fox -- The Use of animals in experimentation: an examination of the 'technical' arguments used to criticize the practice / Andrew N. Rowan -- Part III: Animal rights and the political process. The American animal rights movement / James M. Jasper -- Animal welfare and the European Union / Rosemary Goddard Svendsen -- Putting animals into politics / Richard D. Ryder -- Utopian visions and pragmatic politics: challenging the foundations of speciesism and misothery / Kim Stallwood.

This book, written by leading academics and activists, examines the development of animal rights over the past two decades and asks where the issue goes from here. The contributions cover animal rights philosophy, strategies of the animal rights movement, the treatment of animals in specific contexts and the political arena within which animal advocates must operate. The unifying theme is provided by an emerging debate about the future direction of the animal protection movement, and, in particular, about the utility of using rights language as a means of achieving further progress.