Anna E Charlton

Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University

Anna E Charlton is adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University and the co-founder of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic. Her latest book, together with Gary L Francione, is Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach (2015).

Written by Anna E Charlton

Three brown and white cattle crowded close together, looking towards the camera.

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Ethics

A ‘humanely’ killed animal is still killed – and that’s wrong

Anna E Charlton & Gary L Francione

A golden retriever lying on a patterned rug indoors, resting its head on its front paws while looking at the camera.

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Ethics

The case against pets

A morally just world would have no pets, no aquaria, no zoos. No fields of sheep, no barns of cows. That’s true animal rights

Gary L Francione & Anna E Charlton