Animals Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress
Open Gate Press, 1980, Hardback, ISBN: 0900000988, £12.00
Society for Animal Rights, 1980, Paperback, ISBN: 0960263209, $6.00

New edition of Salt's classics with a preface by the author of Animal Liberation. Salt points out that sympathy is one thing and that a recognition of rights is another. The reason we will advance from the former phase to the latter is "that every great liberating movement has proceeded exactly on these lines. Oppression and cruelty are invariably founded on a lack of imaginative sympathy; the tyrant or tormentor can have no true sense of kinship with the victim of his injustice. When once the sense of affinity is awakened, the knell of tyranny is sounded, and the ultimate concession of animals rights' is simply a matter of time." Salt urges his readers to look back to the time when human slaves were excluded from the common pale of humanity, when the same hypocritical fallacies used to justify that exclusion were invoked in the case of animals.

"A masterpiece; it remains one of the most lucid and persuasive of all the books written in defense of animals," Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books

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