Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
1981
Abstract
Animal Rights is in the air, so much so that the term borders on becoming a buzzword and the cause itself the latest form of radical chic. Although Lewis Gompertz, HenryS. Salt and others put forth radically different views on attitudes and relations toward other animals more than a century ago, the publication in 1972 of essays by Brigid Brophy, Richard Ryder and others in the book, Animals, Men and Morals and the more popular book, Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer have sparked another wave of these views and have inspired a spate of college courses, articles in both academic and popular periodicals and radio and television programs on the subject of animal rights. We are reaching the public now with better analyses and better ways of explaining why humans should stop abusing and using other species.
Recommended Citation
Mason, J. (1981). The politics of animal rights: Making the human connection. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems, 2(3), 124-128.
Included in
Animal Studies Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons
Comments
The following article was originally run in our last issue (May/June 1981). However, our failure to pick up a production error in time resulted in the article being printed with several sections bizarrely transposed. We offer our apologies once more to our readers and especially to the author and present the article in its proper order below.- Editors