Towards a vegan jurisprudence : the need for a reorientation of human rights / Jeanette Rowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowley, Jeanette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]

Summary:

This book posits discrimination against vegans as a human rights violation, arguing that the rights claims of vegans should not be assessed as matters of personal and private conscience but as the re-presentation of innate duty to vulnerable others.

Contents:

The suffering narrative of veganism

The context for vegan rights

Can human rights be grounded by ethical responsibility to suffering?

The ethics of alterity and responsibility to other animals

The implications of including nonhuman animals in an ethics of alterity for protective rights : animal rights, 'remorseful justice' and vegan litigation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-7936-2367-8