OPINION/COMMENTARY

Animal Rights and Wrongs Do animals have rights? Are animals capable of rational choice? Is it right to equate animals and their feelings with those of human beings? Roger Scruton, academic philosopher and author of The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), probes these questions and more like them in Animal Rights and Wrongs. In delving into such issues, Scruton critiques leftist ideas about animal rights and environmentalism, and challenges contemporary assumptions about man's relationship with animals and nature. Scruton also examines hunting, an issue that many in Scruton's native Britain feel strongly about on both ends of the spectrum. "Hunting and meat production…has awakened the defenders of animal rights," he writes.....