TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francione,Gary L.
TI  - Animals, property, and the law
T2  - Ethics and action
SN  - 1566392837 (c : alk. paper)
AV  - KF 3841 .F73 1995
U1  - 346.7304/6954347.30646954 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Animal welfare
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Animal rights
KW  - Animals
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-344) and index; Legal welfarism: the consequences of the property status of animals --; Status of animals as property --; Problem: unnecessary suffering and the humane treatment of property --; Dominion of humans over animals, the defects of animals, and the common law --; Two examples of legal welfarism --; Exclusion of animal interests from legal consideration: the doctrine of standing --; Laws and rights: claims, benefits, interests and the instrumental status of animals --; General application of the theory: anticruelty statutes; Purposes of anticruelty statutes --; Anticruelty statutes and the protection of the institutionalized exploitation of animals --; Specific application of the theory: the regulation of animal experimentation --; Animal experimentation: animal property and human benefit --; Federal Animal Welfare Act --; Administrative regulation of the Animal Welfare Act --; Animal Welfare Act in the courts --; Alternative to legal welfarism
ER  -