Books
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka. Zoopolis?: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Midgley, Mary. Animals and Why They Matter. Second edition. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1998. First published: 1983.
Articles
Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. First published: 1990. Chapters 1 and 2. Link
Callicott, J B. “Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair.” Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair, no. 4 (1980): 311–38. Link
Charlton, Anna, and Gary L. Francione. “Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach.” Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, 2012. Link
Francione, Gary L. “Animals--Property or Persons?” In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum, 108–42. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Available at Link
Gruen, “The Moral Status of Animals”, Link
Horta, Oscar. “Zoopolis, Interventions and the State of Nature.” Law, Ethics and Philosophy, no. 1 (2013): 113–25. Link
Jamieson, Dale. (1998) “Animal Liberation Is an Environmental Ethic”, Environmental Values. JSTOR, pp. 41–57. Link
Kagan, Shelly. “What’s Wrong with Speciesism? (Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2015).” Journal of Applied Philosophy 33, no. 1 (2016): 1–21. doi:10.1111/japp.12164. Link
Korsgaard, Christine M. “Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals.” Tanner Lectures on Human Values 25 (2005): 77-110. Link
Posner, Richard A. “Animal Rights. Review of Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals by Steven M. Wise”, The Yale Law Journal 110, no. 3 (2000): 527–541. Link
Regan, Tom. “Animal Rights, Human Wrongs.” Edited by Eugene C Hargrove. Environmental Ethics 2, no. 2 (1980): 99–120. Link
Singer, Peter. “All Animals Are Equal.” Philosophic Exchange 5, no. 1 (1974): 6. Link
Singer, Peter. “Why Speciesism Is Wrong: A Response to Kagan.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 33, no. 1 (2016): 31–35. doi:10.1111/japp.12165. Link
Secondary literature
Anderson, Elizabeth. “Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life.” In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, edited by Cass R Sunstein and Martha Craven Nussbaum, 277–98. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Balcombe, Jonathan. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins. Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Crary, Alice. Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Hadley, John. Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals. London: Lexington Books, 2015.
Deckers, Jan. Animal Deliberation. Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned? Ubiquity Press, 2016.
Diamond, Cora. “Eating Meat and Eating People.” Philosophy 53, no. 206 (1978): 465–79. doi:DOI: 10.1017/S0031819100026334. Link
Donovan, Josephine. “Animal Rights and Feminist Theory.” Signs 15, no. 2 (1990): 350–75. Link
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Mancilla, Alejandra. “Veganism.” In Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, edited by Paul B Thompson and David M Kaplan, 1–7. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. Link
Nussbaum, Martha. Frontiers of Justice. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Rowlands, Mark. “Can Animals Be Moral?” New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Safran Foer, Jonathan. Eating Animals. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First published: 1975.
Singer, Peter. “Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 9, no. 4 (1980): 325–37. Link
Smith, Andrew F. A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism. Springer, 2016.