Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective

by Michael P.T. Leahy

The Western world is currently gripped by an obsessive concern for the rights of animals - their uses and abuses. In this book, Leahy argues that this is a movement based upon a series of fundamental misconceptions about the basic nature of animals.
This is a radical philosophical questioning of prevailing views on animal rights, which credit animals with a self-consciousness like ours. Leahy's conclusions have implications for issues such as bloodsports, meat eating and fur trading.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 4, 1991

Reviews

[John Colvin]

Just want to read the counter arguments.