Evaluating Robert Garner's A Theory Of Justice For Animal Rights

I chose to evaluate the book A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Non-Ideal World by Robert Garner, with the hopes of finding more information about the controversial issue of rights for animals. In 2013, this book was published by Oxford University Press, which is a very well known and trustworthy publisher. Robert Garner is an author and a professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Garner strongly supports animal getting rights and wrote this book to bring attention to the importance of why we need to work together to end all things that humans do that cause animal suffering. Animal activists have been working to free animals from the cruel tasks that humans are using animals for, such as work, testing, and our own amusement(i.e. zoos and circuses). This book
When looking at who the audience of this book would be, we can see that it was written for either a mass or a popular audience. This book both provides helpful information for people that are interested in learning more about animal rights, or it could just be a good book for someone who is looking for an interesting read. The chapters in this book touch on the different theories that there are about animal rights and Garner goes into great detail to either defends the theory or tells us what is wrong in the theory. Chapter three of the book A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Non-Ideal World, provides me with the perfect material for my research paper. The chapter is titled “Why Animals Need Rights” and Garner provides responses to possible questions or doubts that some people may have about animals having rights. Garner discusses the Rawl’s contractarian theory and how it does not state that animals need rights nor justice (44). Garner discusses the moral reason for