Rain without thunder the ideology of the animal rights movement
Gary L. Francione.
- Philadelphia, Pa. Temple University Press 1996.
- xii, 269 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Animal rights and animal welfare -- 1. Animal rights: the rejection of instrumentalism -- 2. The new welfarists -- 3. The philosophical and historical origins of new welfarism -- 4. The results of new welfarism: the "animal confusion" movement -- 5. The empirical and structural defects of animal welfare theory -- 6. Is animal rights a "utopian" theory? -- Rights theory: an incremental approach -- Conclusion.