ANIMAL RIGHTS:
A ROHRBACH LIBRARY
PATHFINDER
Prepared by Sylvia
Pham
Reference Librarian,
Rohrbach Library
Animal Rights is a social movement. It opposes the use of animals when they are forced
to live in unnatural surroundings, are caused bodily injury, or needlessly
killed. The movement was born in the
1970's out of the animal protection movement (which supports the humane
treatment of animals for food and research).
The basic premise of animal rights is that animals, like humans,
experience pain, and that animals are all too often placed in situations that
inflict pain, like laboratory experiments, traps for fur or sporting events.
The goal of animal rights activists is to provide legal
protection for animals against inhumane treatment and to eradicate the status
of animals as human property. By
elevating the status of animals to something above human property, they are
ensured of the rights needed to protect them from human abuse.
The selected resources here can help one become more
familiar with the subject of animal rights.
Included in this list are several web sites dealing with various animal
rights issues. The Internet offers a
wealth of information. Research done
through a search engine such as Yahoo! Or Google can lead one to several different
paths, simply by typing in "animal rights" as a keyword search term.
SELECT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
These subject headings and subsequent titles can be found in Quincy,
Rohrbach Library’s online catalog.
These headings can be found doing a Library of Congress subject search
using the words animal rights.
TEXTS
Animal Rights and
Welfare. Edited by Jeanne Williams,
1991. William's book offers essays on
the pros and cons of animal research.
Provides a bibliography and an additional list of periodicals with
abstracts.
HV 4708 .A55 1991
Animal Rights: A
Bibliography. Compiled by Joan
Nordquist, 1991. This book offers readers
a list of books, pamphlets, articles and organizations according to the various
animal rights topics.
HV 4708 .N67 1991
Beyond Prejudice, the
Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals. By Evelyn Pluhar, 1995.
Presents to readers essays on both sides of the argument-those who
support animal rights and those who do not.
HV 4708 .P67 1995
Animal Rights and
Human Morality. By Bernard Rollin,
1992. Offers readers background
information on the theories and arguments for animal rights.
HV 4708 R655 1992
Animal Sacrifices:
Religious Perspectives On the Use of Animals in Science. By Tom Regan, 1986. Offers readers animal experimentation issues
in science from the view of several world religions.
179.4 An54
Case for Animal
Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. By Michael Allen Fox, 1986. This
book presents arguments in support of animal experimentation.
179.4 F832c
Animal Rights
Handbook: Everyday Ways to Save Animal Lives. By Laura Fraser, 1990.
This book gives readers suggestions on what they can do on a personal,
everyday level to combat animal abuse.
HV 4764 S68 1990.
Ethics into
Action: Henry Spira and the Animal
Rights Movement. By Peter Singer,
1988.
This book discusses the successful efforts of activist Henry
Spira, an inspiration to those fighting for social causes.
HV 4764 .S69 S55 1998
In Defense of Animals. By Peter Singer. This book presents arguments in support of the Animal Liberation
movement.
179.3 In3
Animals, Men and
Morals. Ed. by Stanley and Rosalind
Godlovitch, 1972. This book provides
examples of how animals are treated in scientific experiments, on farms and how
they are hunted and killed for fur,
food, etc.
179.3 G546a.
The Moral Status of
Animals. By Stephen R.L. Clark,
1977. Presents theoretical arguments in
support of the humane treatment of animals.
179.3 C549m.
Case for Animal
Rights. By Tom Regan, 1983.
HV 4708. R43 1983
Animal Liberation: a
New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals. By Peter Singer, 1975.
HV 4708 S56
Morals, Reason, and
Animals. By S.F. Sapontzis, 1987.
HV 4708 S23 1987
All That Dwell
Therein: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics. By Tom Regan, 1982.
179.3 R261a
Animal Liberators:
Research and Mortality. By Susan
Sperling, 1988.
HV 4764 .S69 S55 1998
PERIODICAL DATABASES
The Rohrbach Library provides several full-text periodical
databases, such as Ebscohost Academic Search Premier and Ebscohost
Newspaper Source. They contain many
relevant articles on animal rights issues.
The library also has Webspirs indexing and abstracting for scholarly
journals. Both services are available
via the library's homepage. Please ask any reference librarian for
assistance in using these sources.
USEFUL WEBSITES
This website is the official website for World Animal Net, a
network of animal rights organizations throughout the world. It provides information on the organization,
current campaigns, published literature, contact numbers and links to the
various societies involved in this network.
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
This is the organization's official website. It provides information on adopting pets,
pet care, animal shelter locations, membership, lobbying, and donations. There is a "Voice Your Opinion"
link in which users can send messages to state and federal officials about
animal rights issues.
The Humane Society of the United States.
This group's website has a pull-down menu on various animal
rights topics. There is a daily news
feature, information on current animal rights legislation, press releases,
details about the organization itself, contact numbers, and steps on how to
join the organization.
PETA- People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals.
This group's official website has timely information on the
group's latest campaigns, press releases, details on companies that conduct
animal testing, and current examples of animal abuses around the world. It also features articles from past issues
of PETA's magazine, Animal Times.
Rutgers University School of Law, Animal
Rights Center.
This website is put together by Rutgers law students who
support animal rights. It provides
their argument for pro-animal legislation and their goals as an organization as
well as other legal information in the animal rights debate.
The website features such information as the group's
mission, the work that they do, and the services they provide. There is a section on pet care, adoption
rules, and successful adoption stories.
PERIODICAL TEXTS
Animals Agenda. Published by the Animal Rights Network,
a non-profit organization. This publication
provides in-depth information on various animas abuses, particularly those
performed under scientific research.
VIDEOS
The following list of videos available at the AV Center deal
with animal rights issues. Many are produced
in conjunction with the animal rights group PETA.
Animal Rights: the
issues, the movement. 1982.
#4738
Animals film. 1981.
#4740
Down on the Farm. 1979.
#4744
Health with Humanity. 1990.
#4742
Other Side of the
Fence. 1988.
#4743
Products of Pain. 1986.
#4748
Progress Without Pain. 1984.
#4746
Sentenced for Life:
Chickens' Lib questions the legality of the battery system for laying hens. 1990.
#4739
Voice in the
wilderness. 1986.
#4749
We are all Noah. 1986.
#4741
What Price Beauty? 1980.
#4747
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