Portal:Animal rights

Animal Rights

Works

• Against Barbarity to Animals, (1713) article by Alexander Pope published in the short-lived newspaper The Guardian (1713). (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789 treatise by Jeremy Bentham that argued animal suffering is just as real as human suffering
• Fragments in defence of animals, and essays on morals, soul, and future state, (1852) by Lewis Gompertz (transcription project)
• Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress, 1892 by Henry Salt
• The First Step, 1891 essay by Leo Tolstoy debating the presence of hypocrisy in a Christian or Pagan claim to be virtuous without practicing vegetarianism.
• Friends and Helpers, pre-1899 work by Sarah J. Eddy[1]
• Christ Among the Cattle, 1908 sermon by Frederic Rowland Marvin arguing that compassion for animals is essential to Christian teaching
• Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses, 1892 Pamphlet by Horace Frank Lester detailing the poor treatment of animals, and conditions within London Slaughter-houses, both public and private, Lester himself arguing for more humane lethal practises and Parliamentary Legislation regulating such practises.

Poetry

• Care for the Lowest, by William Cowper
• The Halo, by W. C. Gannett

Fiction

• Black Beauty, 1877 novel by Anna Sewell about an abused horse's rehabilitation
• Beautiful Joe, 1894 novel by Margaret Marshall Saunders about an abused dog[2]

See also

See also the related index at:

• Portal:Vegetarianism