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Animals, Equality and Democracy Author: Siobhan O'Sullivan

ISBN: 9780230243873 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 213 Published: 15 November 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 14.5 x 1.8 Description: Animal welfare laws for hens in petting zoos are more comprehensive than laws for broiler hens raised for meat. Seem strange? In Animals, Equality and Democracy, Siobhan O'Sullivan exposes inconsistencies in animal protection laws that favour the most popular, best known non-human animals.

She also shows that protections vary depending on how we want to make use of a particular animal, with the most visible animals receiving the strongest level of protection. She argues that contemporary animal welfare laws make the lives of animals akin to a lottery.

O'Sullivan calls this the 'internal inconsistency' and argues that animal protection inequalities offend fundamental liberal democratic values. She argues that this is a justice issue and proposes that both human-animal studies scholars, and animal advocates, turn their attention to the internal inconsistency as a pressing matter of social justice.

This book looks at animal protection problems from the perspective of political studies. This is a unique approach with very few political scientists engaging with contemporary animal protect...

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