The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest

In the last two decades hundreds of thousands of Americans have championed animal rights as part of a new, powerful and controversial social movement.   In this history of the movement, the authors define three types of animal rights organisations. "Welfarist" groups, e.g., the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), accept most current uses of animals in scientific experiments while seeking to minimize their suffering. "Pragmatist" organisations such as Friends of Animals condone the use of animals when the benefits are likely to outweigh the animals' suffering. Most militant are "fundamentalist" groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The authors point out that the pragmatists have achieved many of their goals through negotiation and legislation and that the movement has accelerated development of alternatives to live-animal testing.

First Edition. 214 pages. Hardcover. Written by two sociology professors at New York University. Includes bibliographical references and index. Available from Amazon.

ISBN-13: 978-0-0291-6195-1; ISBN-10: 0-0291-6195-9