Portal:Animal rights

Works

 * Against Barbarity to Animals, (1713) article by Alexander Pope published in the short-lived newspaper The Guardian (1713).
 * An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789 treatise by Jeremy Bentham that argued animal suffering is just as real as human suffering
 * Fragments in defence of animals, and essays on morals, soul, and future state, (1852) by Lewis Gompertz
 * Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress, 1892 by Henry Salt
 * The First Step, 1891 essay by Leo Tolstoy debating the presence of hypocrisy in a Christian or Pagan claim to be virtuous without practicing vegetarianism.
 * Friends and Helpers, pre-1899 work by Sarah J. Eddy
 * Christ Among the Cattle, 1908 sermon by Frederic Rowland Marvin arguing that compassion for animals is essential to Christian teaching
 * Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses, 1892 Pamphlet by Horace Frank Lester detailing the poor treatment of animals, and conditions within London Slaughter-houses, both public and private, Lester himself arguing for more humane lethal practises and Parliamentary Legislation regulating such practises.

Poetry

 * Care for the Lowest, by William Cowper
 * The Halo, by W. C. Gannett

Fiction

 * Black Beauty, 1877 novel by Anna Sewell about an abused horse's rehabilitation
 * Beautiful Joe, 1894 novel by Margaret Marshall Saunders about an abused dog