Destined to change the way people. think

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Jane Goodall reflecting on the publication and content of Tom Regan's new book, Empty Cages: Facing The Challenge of Animal Rights.

The people and groups that receive the mainstream media attention on issues regarding "animal rights" are typically not at all animal rights oriented in the true sense of the term. The philosophy of animal rights is deeply and eloquently presented by Professor Regan and others, and little resembles the mainstream media fixation on publicity stunts. Oh, well, I am out of time, but this new book is great news!!

Tom Regan delivers a searing indictment of the way we treat animals in the world we have made for ourselves, and presents a trenchant case that animals have or should have rights in the same way that human beings have."
~ J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature

"Every so often a book is written that is destined to change the way people think. Tom Regan has written just such a book. Empty Cages is compelling because it is logical, rational and written in an elegantly simple style. It will educate and sadden you, and make you angry, but never is it inflammatory. Reading it may not convert you into an animal rights advocate, at least not immediately, but it will most definitely give you an understanding of and sympathy for the movement. And all animals, everywhere, will benefit. Please buy this book, read it and tell your friends about it. Everyone needs a copy on their
bookshelf."
~ Jane Goodall

"The major animal user industries and governments throughout the world say they treat animals 'humanely.' Empty Cages exposes the myth. Compassionate people will be outraged when they read about the mind numbing cruelty inflicted upon our fellow creatures. The challenge of animal rights is simple: Treat other animals with the same respect that we would treat one another--a truly revolutionary idea."
~ Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Biotech Century and Beyond Beef

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tom Regan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh. The author of more than twenty books, he is universally recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. Among his most well known works on animal rights are The Case for Animal Rights (1983), The Struggle for Animal Rights (1987), Defending Animal Rights (2001), and, with Carl Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate (2001).

Link: http://www.cultureandanimals.org/book.htm