A fascinating treatise . . . [that] appeals primarily to students and animal rights proponents.

Publishers Weekly

The volume should be in the library of any school where philosophy is taught or animal research conducted, that is, in nearly every academic library.

Choice Reviews

Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text isrequired reading for everyone interested in this critical issue....

Gary Comstock, Iowa State University

The book would make an ideal main text in a seminar on animals, ethics, and science for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in philosophy, biological sciences, experimental psychology, or the health-professions, including veterinary sciences.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

The book is enormously entertaining, and both writers succeed in making it clear and simple.

Radical Philosophy

A tour de force of brilliant debate. No other 'seeing the issues from both sides' book comes close to this one in the sustained power of argumentation and in its thorough canvassing of the issues surrounding everything that might be said about the ethical treatment of animals. Quite simply, the best book of its kind.

Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University