Animal Rights Philosophy

Animal Writes

Here you will find a selection of online reading, podcasts, recommended books and documents for download covering animal rights, speciesism and oppression.

Online Essays, Articles and Interviews

• Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach - Gary Francione
  A highly recommended blog by the foremost thinker in abolitionist animal rights theory.
  
• Animal Rights 101 - Eric Prescott
• Unpopular Vegan Essays - Dan Cudahy
• Abolitionist Animal Rights - James Crump
  
• Truthiness is Stranger than Fiction: The hidden cost of selling the public on 'cage-free' eggs - James LaVeck
• Invasion of the Movement Snatchers: A Social Justice Cause Falls Prey to the Doctrine of 'Necessary Evil' - James LaVeck
• Compassion for Sale? Doublethink Meets Doublefeel as 'Happy Meat' Comes of Age - James LaVeck
  

Podcasts

• Check out a range of interviews with Gary Francione at The Abolitionist Approach
• Listen to Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog (56min06sec) - a podcast from Animal Voices (Read a transcript of this interview)

Recommended Books

• Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog - Gary L. Francione
• Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation - Gary L. Francione
• Rain Without Thunder: The Idealogy of the Animal Rights Movement - Gary L. Francione
• Animals, Property and the Law - Gary L. Francione
• Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights - Bob Torres
• Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation - David Nibert

Find more detail about these and other recommended books.

Animal Rights: The Last Ten Years

Have recent welfare reforms failed to shift us away from the property paradigm in any significant way?

Professor Gary L. Francione gives a keynote address at a conference on Animals and the Law at Duke University School of Law in North Carolina (April 7, 2006).

Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach Leaflet

Documents for Download