All that dwell therein

"Papers and lectures written and delivered over the past six years or so on the general topic of human obligations to nonhumans"--Pref.Includes index. Bibliography: p. 241-246. The moral basis of vegetarianism -- Utilitarianism, vegetarianism, and animal rights -- Animal experimentation -- Animal rights, human wrongs -- Why whaling is wrong -- An examination and defense of one argument concerning animal rights -- Animals and the law -- What sorts of beings can have rights? -- The nature and possibility of an environmental ethic -- Environmental ethics and the ambiguity of the Native Americans' relationship with nature.