Against cruelty to animals.(In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave)(Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions)(Book review)

From: Social Theory and Practice | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

[Review Essay: Peter Singer (ed.), In Defense of Animals. The Second Wave (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), x + 248 pp; and Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xi + 338 pp.]

Would you rather pay $.89 for a dozen eggs or $2.89? Most Americans prefer the lower price. In the Singer anthology under review, Miyun Park describes the conditions in battery cage facilities that keep prices low, conditions hidden from most Americans. Hens are cramped for their entire lives in wire ...

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