Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress
Title page of the 1894 first American edition | |
| Author | Henry S. Salt |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Animal rights |
| Publisher | George Bell & Sons |
Publication date | 1892 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 162 |
| OCLC | 14024795 |
Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress is an 1892 book by British writer and social reformer Henry S. Salt. He argues that animals, as sentient beings, deserve moral and legal rights based on justice, and critiques various forms of animal exploitation as incompatible with ethical social progress. It is widely considered to be the first explicit treatment of the concept of animal rights.