Reddit mentions of The Animal Rights Debate

I started a debate thread on r/vegan a while back in order to get their perspective on one of my favorite pastimes; hunting. The discussion was very one sided as I was the only hunter participating, and it was not exactly philosophically rigorous. But here is a short example of how I would justify hunting and the consumption of meat in general. For further reading check out Carl Cohen and Tom Regan's debate on animal rights. Also here is another fairly un-philosophical, colloquial defense of hunting I posted in a thread on r/documentaries.

Shorter encapsulations of his work in animal ethics.






"The Animal Rights Debate




Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights" serves as a pretty good intro to him and animal ethics in general:


The Case for Animal Rights. Most important work. Written in 1983; I think it's still the most rigorous argument in animal ethics.


And The Moral Rights of Animals. From the description: "The attitudes of philosophers on our obligations to other animals and the view that other animals possess certain moral rights have shifted considerably in the last 40 years and a great deal of credit for this shift is owed to Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights and subsequent work. This excellent anthology grew out of a 2011 workshop held in Regan's honor and is dedicated to him. It features fourteen essays all of which intersect with Regan's views in some way."