The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals: Humanity’s Shared Destiny with the Animal Kingdom (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) - Hardcover

Moore, Kimberly C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031460642 ISBN 13: 9783031460647

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom.  To underscore the urgent need for legal reform, the book documents how animals are in crisis, with separate discussions on animals in entertainment, research, fashion, the food industry, and animals in our homes, as well as issues that impact wildlife and aquatic animals. In each of the foregoing areas, there is a discussion of major developments for animals across the globe, the objective being to demonstrate how the U.S. is out of step with other major countries in its legal treatment of animals. The importance of media as a driver of change is also considered.  This background culminates to the heart of the book, which discusses and analyzes the link between human rights and animal rights, with nine areas explored (e.g., loss of biodiversity; environmental destruction; zoonotic diseases; world hunger; violence). Challengesto legal reforms are also explored, including issues associated with weak laws, the failure to enforce existing laws, and governmental agencies that tend to overlook the actions of industries.  Finally, the book explores the development of animal law and the trajectory of current laws, with analysis of developing ‘rights of nature’ laws and ‘legal personhood’ status for animals. 

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Kimberly C. Moore is a senior attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., where she is an expert on laws governing the treatment of animals, federal income taxation, private equity and real estate. She is the Director of Public Relations for Fur Free Society, Inc. and has represented organizations dedicated to the protection of animals. Kimberly is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. 

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"The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals is a thoroughly researched account of how we treat animals today and why far-reaching reforms are urgently needed, for the sake of the animals, the environment, and humans as well. The book is an excellent guide to the emerging field of animal law and to the challenges it faces."

–Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and Animal Liberation Now

"Kimberly Moore powerfully and persuasively makes the case for the legal protection of animals demonstrating the undeniable link between animal welfare, public health and the environment. A compelling read!"

–Joan Schaffner, Faculty Co-director, Animal Legal Education Initiative, The George Washington University Law School

This book presents the case for the legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom. To underscore the urgent need for legal reform, the book documentshow animals are in crisis, with separate discussions on animals in entertainment, research, fashion, and the food industry, as well as issues that impact companion animals, wildlife and aquatic animals. The heart of the book discusses the link between human rights and animal rights and challenges to legal reforms. Finally, the book explores the development of animal law and the trajectory of current laws, with analysis of developing ‘rights of nature’ laws and ‘legal personhood’ status for animals. 

Kimberly C. Moore is a senior attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C. She is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the Director of Public Relations for Fur Free Society, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3031460642
• ISBN 13: 9783031460647
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 351
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