Full Description
Empirical Animal Law challenges long-held assumptions about what animal law reforms help or harm animals. Drawing on original empirical studies and a broad interdisciplinary body of research, the book tests whether familiar tools of advocacy such as incremental reforms, criminal prosecutions, litigation, and protest really reduce animal suffering. Moving beyond moral intuition and ideology the book reveals how people perceive animal harm, which messages and messengers persuade, and when well-intentioned strategies may backfire. With chapters on factory farming reforms, criminal punishment, litigation strategy, protest backlash, and moral framing, Empirical Animal Law offers the first comprehensive, data-driven account of how animal law operates in practice and calls for a new empirically informed movement.
Contents
1. Introduction; Part I. Testing Foundational Assumptions: 2. Incremental Reforms versus Animal Rights: Studying the Impacts of Animal Welfare Laws; 3. Speciesism and the Meat Paradox: New Empirical Studies about Cognitive Bias; Part II. Examining the Carceral Approach to Animal Law: 4. Carceral Animal Law Overview; 5. Race, Class, and the Criminal Prosecution of Animal Crimes; 6. Revisiting the Assumption that Carceral Animal Law Is Helpful; 7. Carceral Animal Law as Affirmatively Harming Animal Protection Efforts; Part III. Messaging Types and Styles in the Realm of Animal Protection: 8. The Role and Potential Role of Protest in the Animal Welfare and Rights Movement; 9. Winning by Losing as an Animal Movement Strategy: An Overview of the Evidence and Open Questions; 10. Empirically Studying Winning by Losing in Litigation; 11. Moral Framing of Animal Protection Messages; 12. Conclusion.
