Animal Ethics


Animal Liberation
Eating Animals
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Case for Animal Rights
This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
Magnus Vinding
Perpetrator bias is likewise important […]. At the level of humanity’s systematic exploitation and abuse of non-human animals, we find no single perpetrator we can point toward, rather many partly complicit agents – the farmer, the slaughterhouse worker, the customer. This division of maleficence blinds us to the atrocities committed by this institution as a whole.
Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

[...] o reforço oculto do especismo está presente em qualquer discurso que subentenda que os danos para os animais não são razões suficientes para rejeitarmos as práticas especistas. A percepção do público geral é: "se mesmo os ativistas pensam que o sofrimento e as mortes dos animais não são suficientes para que a exploração deva ser abolida, então provavelmente não há nada de errado com prejudicar os animais". ...more
Luciano Carlos Cunha, Uma breve introdução à ética animal: desde as questões clássicas até o que vem sendo discutido atualmente

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