Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights

Nathan Nobis

126 pages
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A short, accessible introduction to moral reasoning through one concrete question: how should we treat animals? It teaches how to build and test arguments on food, experimentation, and animal rights.

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