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Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals

by Steven Wise

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ISBN13: 9780738204376
ISBN10: 0738204374
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Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.

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An animal rights lawyer explains how the failure to recognize the basic rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. "A path-breaking book that makes it impossible to continue thinking of animals as mere property".--Peter Singer, Princeton University.
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ISBN:
9780738204376
Subtitle:
Toward Legal Rights for Animals
Foreword:
Goodall, Jane
Author:
Wise, Steven
Author:
Wise, Steven M.
Author:
Introduction by Jane Good
Author:
Goodall, Jane
Publisher:
Westview Publishing
Subject:
General
Subject:
Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Subject:
Science & Technology
Subject:
Animal Rights
Subject:
Animal welfare
Subject:
General science
Subject:
Animal rights -- United States.
Subject:
Animal welfare -- Law and legislation.
Publication Date:
February 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
362
Dimensions:
900x600x85 124
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