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Christine Overall, ed., Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals

Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 2017, 295 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-045607-8, $36.95 (Pbk.)

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  1. Gary L. Francione, “The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research: Necessity and Justification,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 241–248 (Summer 2007), reprinted with postscript in Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation 170–185 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

  2. See, e.g., Gary L. Francione, Animals, Property, and the Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995); Gary L. Francione, “Animals—Property or Persons?,” in Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum eds., Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions 108–142 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

  3. See Gary L. Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000). See also Gary L. Francione and Anna E. Charlton, “Why We Must Respect the Rights of All Sentient Animals,” Open Democracy: Transformation, January 28, 2018, at https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/gary-l-francione-anna-e-charlton/why-we-must-respect-rights-of-all-sentient-animals.

  4. See Gary L. Francione and Anna E. Charlton, “The Case Against Pets,” AEON, September. 8, 2016, at https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical.

  5. Gary L. Francione, “Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals,” 18 Women’s Rights Law Reporter 95–106 (1996), reprinted with postscript in Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons, supra note 1, at 186–209.

  6. See Gary L. Francione, Gary L. Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights, supra note 3, at 130–50; Gary L. Francione, “Animals—Property or Persons,” supra note 2, at 120–131.

  7. See my discussion of “quasi-persons” or “things plus” in Gary L. Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights, supra note 3, at 100–102.

  8. See Gary L. Francione, “It’s Time to Reconsider the Meaning of ‘Animal Welfare’,” Open Democracy: Transformation, January 7, 2018, at https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/gary-francione/it-s-time-to-reconsider-meaning-of-animal-welfare.

  9. See Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons, supra note 1; Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton, Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach (Newark, N.J.: Exempla Press, 2015).

  10. There are some who respond to my position that domestication cannot be morally justified by claiming that humans are domesticated. Anyone who maintains that they think that our conformity to various social norms is analogous in any relevant way to the domestication of nonhuman animals does not understand the human conformity to social norms, the domestication of nonhumans, or analogical reasoning.

  11. For a brief critique of animal welfare from the abolitionist perspective, see Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton, Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, supra note 9, at 31–68. For more detailed discussions, see Gary L. Francione, “The Abolition of Animal Exploitation,” in Gary L. Francione and Robert Garner, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? 4–61 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); Gary L. Francione, Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996).

  12. I do not regard vegetarianism as involving a coherent moral position. There is no morally relevant distinction between meat and other animal products. See Gary L. Francione, “The Abolition of Animal Exploitation,”supra note 11, at 63–64.

  13. Peter Singer, “Heavy Petting,” Nerve, 2001, at https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/2001---.htm.

  14. See Gary L. Francione, “Comparable Harm and Equal Inherent Value: The Problem of the Dog in the Lifeboat,” Between the Species 81–89 (Summer/Fall 1995), reprinted with postscript in Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons, supra note 1, at 210–229.

  15. See, e.g., Gary L. Francione, “The Abolition of Animal Exploitation,” supra note 11, at 4–25.

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I am grateful to Anna E. Charlton and Gary Steiner for helpful comments, and to James Taylor, the book review editor, who was more than patient while I wrote a review that was much longer than what he had requested. This essay is dedicated to our six canine refugees, whom we love dearly but who should never have existed.

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Francione, G.L. Christine Overall, ed., Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals. J Value Inquiry 52, 491–516 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9625-1

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