Animal Rights
Books
 |
Animals and Why They Matterby Mary Midgley / Paperback / 158 pagesISBN: 0820320412Price: $17.95
About the Book
Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination. Mary Midgley’s profound and clearly written narrative is a thought-provoking study of the way in which the opposition between reason and emotion has shaped our moral and political ideas and the problems it has raised. Whether considering vegetarianism, women’s rights, or the “humanity” of pets, this book goes to the heart of the question of why all animals matter.
|
 |
Animal Equality : Language and Liberationby Joan Dunayer / Hardcover / 283 pagesISBN: 0970647557Price: $19.00
About the Book
The first book on language and nonhuman oppression–and the most progressive animal-rights book to date–Animal Equality shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward nonhuman animals. Speciesism (prejudice against nonhuman animals) survives through lies. Animal Equality’s compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion debunks language that characterizes other animals as unreasoning or insensitive. Vivid descriptions of hunting, sportfishing, zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection, and food-industry captivity and slaughter reveal the cruelty that misleading words legitimize and conceal. Animal Equality also uncovers the speciesist attitudes and practices underlying much sexist and racist language. Every animal–nonhuman or human–deserves equal consideration and protection, Joan Dunayer argues. Offering pronoun, vocabulary, and style guidelines, she proposes new language that will bring us closer to nonhuman liberation.
|
 |
Animal Liberationby Peter Singer / Paperback / 352 pagesISBN: 0060011572Price: $10.92
About the Book
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere — inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today’s “factory forms” and product-testing procedures — offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike. |
 |
Animals Like Us (Practical ethics series)by Mark Rowlands / Paperback / 194 pagesISBN: 1859843867Price: $14.04
About the Book
Foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, bloated dead sheep with their legs in the air, mutilated dogs waiting to die after undergoing horrendous experiments in the name of science or even just product-testing—these are some of the images that illustrate the indifference of a consumerist society to the suffering of animals. Few are willing to recognize that the packaged, sanitized supermarket meat that materializes on their dinner tables every day is the result of an industrial process involving unimaginable pain and suffering. In this clearly argued book, Mark Rowlands claims that it is simply unjust to harm animals. As conscious, sentient beings, biologically continuous with humans, they have interests that cannot simply be disregarded. Using simple principles of justice, he argues that animals have moral rights, and examines the consequences of this claim in the contexts of vegetarianism, animal experimentation, zoos and hunting, as well as the animal rights activism that has resulted from the recognition by a relatively small group of political activists that animals cannot simply be considered in their relation to humans.About the Practical Ethics Series: Providing clear analysis of a number of central moral issues and written by experts, the titles in Verso’s new Practical Ethics Series will appeal to the student while being lively and topical enough to make them attractive to a wide general public
|
——–
 |
The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprintby Ph.D. Marc Bekoff / Paperback / 272 pagesISBN: 1577316495Price: $10.17
About the Book
A collaborator with legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the 2000 winner of the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society, author and Colorado University professor Bekoff (The Emotional Lives of Animals) lays out the “unique responsibilities” of human beings, as “moral agents,” to overcome speciesism and recognize animals “as fellow sentient, emotional beings,” with all the attendant rights that implies. Taking examples from everyday life-from rodeos and circuses to word-processors that replace “who” with “that” when referring to animals-Bekoff illustrates the lengths to which humans go to convince themselves animals don’t think, feel, and suffer like we do. Concerning a topic of growing popularity, Bekoff’s arguments can be less than rigorous; an “unwavering optimist and dreamer,” he focuses more on anecdotes and emotions (“alienation from nature… kills our hearts”) than practicalities or a concrete agenda. Instead, Bekoff encourages readers to start simply, by being “mindful” in their interactions with animals. Addressing a weighty issue with gentle but insistent charm, Bekoff’s manifesto will nudge skeptics in the direction of enlightenment (assuming anyone but the choir is buying copies).
|
|
 |
Animals Property & The Law (Ethics And Action)by Gary Francione / Paperback / 274 pagesISBN: {ISBN}Price: $27.85
About the Book
“Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim,” states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione’s profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation?Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings. |
|
 |
The Animal Rights DebatebyCarl Cohen / Paperback / 336 pagesISBN: 0847696634
Price: $34.95 About the Book
Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate and influential philosophers representing the opposing camps. Each makes his case in turn to the opposing case. The arguments meet head on: Are we humans morally justified in using animals as we do? A vexed and enduring controversy here receives its deepest and most eloquent exposition..
|
|
 |
Animal Rights & Human Moralityby Bernard E. Rollin / Paperback / 400 pagesISBN: 1591024218Price: $21.35
About the Book
“Professor Rollin is a serious man with an important message. He asks us not only to recognize that those who use animals have obligations for their care and respect, but also to translate this recognition into new habits. What he asks is reasonable and timely.” – Journal of the American Medical Association It’s been more than two decades since the first edition of this landmark book garnered public accolades for its sensitive yet honest and forthright approach to the many disquieting questions surrounding the emotional debate over animal rights. Is moral concern something owed by human beings only to human beings?Drawing upon his philosophical expertise, his extensive experience of working with animal issues all over the world, and his knowledge of biological science, Bernard E. Rollin—now widely recognized as the father of veterinary ethics—develops a compelling analysis of animal rights as it is emerging in society. The result is a sound basis for rational discussion and social policy development in this area of rapidly growing concern. He believes that society must elevate the moral status of animals and protect their rights as determined by their natures. His public speaking and published works have contributed to passage of major federal legislation designed to increase the well-being of laboratory animals…
|
|
 |
Animal Rights (Essential Viewpoints)by Christie Ritter / Library Binding / 112 pagesISBN: 1604530545Price: $24.92
About the Book
No description.
|
|
 |
Animal Rights/Human Rightsby David Nibert / Paperback / 272 pagesISBN: 0742517764Price: $31.45
About the Book
This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western civilization, one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues that the oppression both of humans and of other species of animals is inextricably tangled within the structure of social arrangements. Nibert asserts that human use and mistreatment of other animals are not natural and do little to further the human condition.
|
|
 |
The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creationby Michael W. Fox / Hardcover / 300 pagesISBN: 0835607259Price: $20.00
About the Book
|
|
 |
The Case for Animal Rightsby Tom Regan / Paperback / 474 pagesISBN: 0520243862Price: $20.65
About the Book
More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book’s revolutionary position. Illustrations: 1 b/w illustration
|
|
 |
Creatures of the Same God: Explorations in Animal Theologyby Andrew Linzey / Paperback / 160 pagesISBN:1590561422Price: $17.10
About the Book
“I don’t know why you’re spending all your time on this. They re only animals for heaven’s sake! That was the reaction of one of Andrew Linzey’s fellow students at King s College, London, when he was studying theology in the 1970s. Since then, the now Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey has been arguing that animals aren’t only anything, but rather that they matter to God, and should do so to us.In this collection of essays, Linzey counters with his customary wit, erudition, and insight, some contemporary (and perhaps surprising) challenges to animal rights from ecotheologians, the Church, and politicians. He contends that far from the sometimes shallow judgments of those who think animals unworthy of theological consideration, the Christian tradition has a wellspring of sources and resources available to taking animals seriously. Instead of being marginal to the Christian experience, Linzey concludes, animals can take their rightful place alongside human beings as creatures of the same God. |
|
 |
In Defense of Animals: The Second Waveby / Paperback / 264 pagesISBN: 1405119411Price: $16.29
About the Book
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave brings together the best current ethical thinking about animals. Edited by Peter Singer, who made “speciesism” an international issue in 1975 when he published Animal Liberation, this new book presents the state of the animal movement that his classic work helped to inspire.Long hailed as a brilliant and controversial philosopher, Singer has assembled incisive new articles by philosophers and by activists. In Defense of Animals is sure to inform and inspire all who want to understand, or contribute to, the unfolding moral revolution in the way we treat animals.
|
|
 |
Defending Animal Rightsby Tom Regan / Hardcover / 200 pagesISBN: 025202611XPrice:
About the Book
Tom Regan, universally recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement, presents a historically important, multifaceted discussion of some responses to the question, “Do animals have rights?” More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also a divisive, enduring topic in normative ethical theory. Addressing key issues in this sometimes acrimonious debate, Regan responds thoughtfully to his critics while dismantling the conception that “all and only” human beings are worthy of the moral status that is the basis of rights. In a set of essays that reflects his thinking on animal and human rights over the past decade, Regan sketches the philosophical positions espoused by those who want to abolish animal exploitation, reform it to minimize suffering, or maintain the status quo. He considers the moral grounds for limiting human freedom when it comes to human interactions with nonhuman animals. He puts the issue of animal rights in historical context, drawing parallels between animal rights activism and other social movements, including the antislavery movement in the nineteenth century and the gay-lesbian struggle today. He also outlines the challenges to animal rights posed by deep ecology and ecofeminism to using animals for human purposes and addresses the ethical dilemma of the animal rights advocate whose employer uses animals for research. Systematically unraveling claims that human beings are rational and therefore entitled to superior moral status, Regan defends the inherent value of all individuals who are “subjects of a life” and decries the speciesism that pretends to separate human from nonhuman animals…
|
|
  |
The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bibleby Norm Phelps / Paperback / 208 pagesISBN: 1590560094Price: $13.50
About the Book
Many commentators and users of the Bible have, over the centuries and up to the present day, used the Bible to argue that animals have no rights, that they were put on this earth for our use, and thatwe have no obligations to them.In his cogent, honest, and fully researched and referenced work, The Dominion of Love, Norm Phelps attempts to encourage all who revere the Bible as holy scripture to open their hearts to the suffering that we inflict upon our nonhuman neighbors. He shows that the right of animals not to be imprisoned, d, and killed for our benefit flows naturally from the Bible’s message of love and compassion and argues that this is the message of the Bible’s most important passages dealing with our relationship to animals. He further responds to the defenses of animal exploitation that are often made based on the Bible…
|
|
 |
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slaveryby Marjorie Spiegel / Paperback / pagesISBN: 0962449334Price: $16.95
About the Book
No Description…
|
|
 |
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rightsby Tom Regan / Paperback / 224 pagesISBN: 0742549933Price: $19.95
About the Book
Described by Jeffrey Masson as the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of humane treatment favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.
|
|
 |
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare by Marc Bekoff / Hardcover / 685 pagesISBN: 0313352550Price: $132.00
About the Book
Grade 9 Up—This collection of 207 essays presents the latest scientific research and writings about the growing interest in animals as sentient creatures that deserve equal treatment and have intrinsic value. The topics include activism, animal-human interaction, genetic engineering, experimentation, speciesism, and zoos. The signed essays, which emphasize philosophy and ethics, vary in length as well as in vocabulary level; many will elicit emotional reactions. Longer entries contain subdivisions, and all have a list of suggested readings. Black-and-white photographs are scattered throughout. Highlights of the volumes are a chronology of historical events in animal protection and an extensive list of resources on animal rights and animal welfare. Some topics, such as puppy mills, are current news items and will be understood by general readers, but other essays will only appeal to advanced science students. All considered, the plethora of information gathered here makes this set a weighty addition to science collections.—Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, Illinois
|
|
 |
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaustby Charles Patterson / Paperback / 312 pagesISBN: 1930051999Price: $13.60
About the Book
ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson, Ph.D., describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, himself a vegetarian: “In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times, while the last part of the book profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust.
The Foreword is by Lucy Kaplan, a former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
|
|
 |
Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movementby Peter Singer / Paperback / 192 pagesISBN: 0847697533Price: $15.56
About the Book
This book tells the inspiring story of a lifelong activist whose creativity and careful thought set the standard for the animal rights movement in the twentieth century.
|
|
 |
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser / Paperback / 416 pagesISBN: 0060838582Price: $10.19
About the Book
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from California’s subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food’s flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths — from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. |
 |
Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty: A Guide for Veterinary and Law Enforcement Professionals by Leslie Sinclair , Melinda Merck , Randall Lockwood / Paperback / 268 pagesISBN: 0974840068Price: $59.95
About the Book
What is the role of the veterinarian in a prosecution for cruelty to animals? This comprehensive introduction to the field is required reading for animal shelter, veterinary, investigative, and law enforcement professionals. In February 2007 Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty won the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) Best General Reference Book: 2006 category and was named Dogwise Best Book of 2006! In March 2007, coauthor Melinda Merck, D.V.M., was profiled in People magazine’s “Animal CSI.”
|
  |
God’s Covenant with Animals: A Biblical Basis for the Humaneby J.R. Hyland / Paperback / 126 pagesISBN: 1930051158Price: $11.90
About the Book
From Genesis to Christ, the Bible testifies to God’s love and concern for animals. The same self-centeredness that led to the violence and abuse that has marked human relations also caused the abuse and exploitation of animals. The Bible, argues the author, calls upon human beings to stop their violence and abuse of each other and all other creatures. It promises that when they do, the sorrow and the suffering that marks life on Earth will five way to the joy and peace that God ordained at the creation of the world.
|
-
 |
Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rightsby Richard A. Young / Paperback / 208 pagesISBN: 0812693930Price: $22.21
About the Book
In IS GOD A VEGETARIAN?, a linguist and New Testament scholar attempts to answer the question being asked with greater and greater frequency: “Are Christians morally obligated to be vegetarians?”Richard Alan Young examines key biblical texts pertaining to dietary customs, vegetarianism, and animal rights, placing the passages in social context. He then provides readers with an in-depth exploration of the ethical dilemmas that Christians face when deciding whether they should be vegetarians. Young also addresses animal testing and experimentation, the fur industry, animal factories, and the effects of meat-eating on human health. Two vegetarian recipes are included at the end of each chapter and an epilogue comprises guidelines for becoming a vegetarian and a recommended reading list. Insightful and challenging, IS GOD A VEGETARIAN? poses provocative questions for vegetarians, Christians, and anyone reflecting upon his personal choices and ethical role in our world today. |
-
 |
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animalsby Frans B. M. de Waal / Paperback / 368 pagesISBN: 0674356616Price: $20.05
About the Book
In Good Natured Frans de Waal, ethologist and primatologist, asks us to reconsider human morality in light of moral aspects that can be identified in animals. Within the complex negotiations of human society, a moral action may involve thoughts and feelings of guilt, reciprocity, obligation, expectations, rules, or community concern. De Waal finds these aspects of morality prevalent in other animal societies, mostly primate, and suggests that the two philosophical camps supporting nature and nurture may have to be disbanded in order to adequately understand human morality. A theoretician, de Waal is meticulous in his research, cautious not to extrapolate too much from his findings, and logically sound in his arguments. He also writes with precision and a flair for the dramatic, carrying readers along with graceful ease and vivid examples.
|
 |
The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rightsby Norm Phelps / Paperback / 208 pagesISBN: 1590560698Price: $14.40
About the Book
Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassion the highest virtues. Moreover, Buddhism explicitly includes animals in its moral universe. Buddhist rules of conduct—including the first precept, “Do not kill”—apply to our treatment of animals as well as to our treatment of other human beings.Consequently, we would expect Buddhism to oppose all forms of animal exploitation, and there is, in fact, wide agreement that most forms of animal exploitation are contrary to Buddhist teaching. Yet many Buddhists eat meat—although many do not—and monks, priests, and scholars sometimes defend meat-eating as consistent with Buddhist teaching….
|
-
 |
The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Capacities Amy Hatkoff, Jane Goodall , Wayne Pacelle / Hardcover / 176 pagesISBN: 1584797487Price: $13.57
About the Book
Chickens can count. Pigs are smarter than poodles. Cows form close friendships. Turkeys know one another by their voices, and sheep recognize faces—of other sheep, and of people. Far from lacking thoughts and feelings, barnyard creatures demonstrate sophisticated problem-solving abilities, possess rich social lives, and feel a wide range of emotions. In other words, they’re much like humans in countless ways. And, like us, they suffer physical pain and mental anguish.In The Inner World of Farm Animals, Amy Hatkoff combines the latest research on the emotional and intellectual capacities of farm animals with touching—and often surprising—stories to bring their inner world to life. Soulful photographs of cows, goats, lambs, and other barnyard animals complement the text, and add to the belief that these creatures deserve our attention. In this heartfelt book, Hatkoff joins the growing call for treating these sentient, aware beings with compassion and respect.
|
-
 |
Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Littleby Nicola Davies / Hardcover / 64 pagesISBN:0763639249Price: $11.24
About the Book
Did you ever wonder why there are no high-fl ying, wall-climbing, tall-building-leaping superheroes in real life? Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from engaging in astonishing feats of strength and agility, and yet why being tiny and all-powerful might have a downside. What if you could lift fi fty times your weight (hello, ant), but getting wet could kill you? Or you could soar like a bird, but a cold breeze would do you in? Whether big or small, our size defi nes more about us than we could ever imagine. Join the duo that brought us POOP, EXTREME ANIMALS, and WHAT’S EATING YOU? for a fun and intriguing exploration of what it means to be just the right size.
|
-
 |
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal RightsbyBob Torres / Paperback / 185 pagesISBN:1904859674
Price: $12.21 About the Book
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you’ll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts-and-bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry—and on the dinner plate.Making A Killing is sure to spark wide debate in the animal rights and anarchist movements for years to come.
|
-
 |
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Moneyby Erik Marcus / Paperback / 288 pagesISBN: 0975867911Price: $10.17
About the Book
Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agricultureÕs cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied.
|
 |
Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soulby Judy McCoy Carman / Paperback / 216 pagesISBN: 1590560051Price: $11.90
About the Book
This award winning book (One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2003–awarded by Spirituality and Health magazine) is an essential tool for all of you working to protect the environment; to promote world peace; to end world hunger and human rights abuses; to liberate animals from suffering; and to raise planetary consciousness. If you are involved in any one of these causes, then you are contributing automatically to all of them. They are all deeply interconnected, and none can go very far forward without the others. All find their common ground in the ethics of nonviolence, compassion, and reverence for all life.In this book, you will find hope and encouragement for your healing work and your vision of a world at peace. Peace to All Beings reveals the root cause behind the violence and war now being waged against the earth, the animals, and people. The good news is this: When we recognize the root cause and, at the same time, hold fast to our shared visions of planetary peace, we empower ourselves both physically and metaphysically to change the world.This book is a valuable tool for this challenging journey of ours. In it you will find useful facts, inspiring true stories, ageless wisdom from some of our greatest visionaries, meditations, and over seventy prayers. When you buy one for your own use, please consider buying another one or several to give as gifts to spiritual leaders, activists, and anyone who might possibly join us in our work to bring peace to the earth, to humanity, and indeed to all beings.
|
-
 |
Philosophy and Animal Life by Stanley Cavell , Cora Diamond , John McDowell , Ian Hacking , Cary Wolfe / Paperback / 184 pagesISBN: 0231145152Price: $16.65
About the Book
Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy,” in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the animal question as it is bound up with the more general problem of philosophical skepticism.Focusing specifically on J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, she considers the failure of language to capture the vulnerability of humans and animals. Stanley Cavell responds to Diamond’s argument with his own close reading of Coetzee’s work, connecting the human-animal relation to further themes of morality and philosophy. John McDowell follows with a critique of both Diamond and Cavell, and Ian Hacking explains why Cora Diamond’s essay is so deeply perturbing and, paradoxically for a philosopher, he favors poetry over philosophy as a way of overcoming some of her difficulties.
|
 |
The Pornography Of Meatby Carol J. Adams / Paperback / 192 pagesISBN: 0826416462Price: $17.95
About the Book
A provocative exploration of how women are literally treated like ‘pieces of meat’ in contemporary culture. From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics,images of women and animals are merged – with devastating consequences. Like her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, which has been published in two editions, The Pomography of Meat uncovers startling connections: Why pornography demonstrates such a fascination with slaughtering and hunting. Rear-entry poses in pornography, implying that women – especially women of colour – are like animals: insatiable. How meat advertising draws on X-rated images. Why at least one prominent animal-rights group is ‘in bed’ with pornographers. With 180 illustrations, this courageous and explosive book establishes why Adams’s slide show, upon which The Pornography of Meat is based, is so popular on campuses across North America and is reviled by the groups she takes on with insight and passion. From the rise of chain steakhouses to the language of the hunt, from the halls of government to the practice of artificial insemination of farm animals, The Pornography of Meat shows exactly how harm parades as fun to others.
|
 |
Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animalsby Steven Wise / Paperback / 384 pagesISBN: 0738204374Price: $14.57
About the Book
“This is an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ways startling book.” –Cass Sunstein, New York Times Book Review. Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse.
|
 |
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theoryby Carol J. Adams / Paperback / 272 pagesISBN: 0826411843Price: $14.93
About the Book
An examination of the historical, gender, race and class implications of meat culture, making the links between the practice of butchering/eating animals and the maintenance of male dominance. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by Carol Adams that answers the question she is most often asked: why did you write this book? Adams also discusses new developments in feminist thought and animal rights, and updates the statistics and information provided.
|
-
 |
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industryby Gail A. Eisnitz / Paperback / 328 pagesISBN: 1591024501Price: $13.59
About the Book
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years—particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation—have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have spoken publicly about what’s really taking place behind the closed doors of America’s slaughterhouses.In this new paperback edition, author Gail A. Eisnitz brings the story up to date since the book’s original publication. She describes the ongoing efforts by the Humane Farming Association to improve conditions in the meatpacking industry, media exposés that have prompted reforms resulting in multimillion dollar appropriations by Congress to try to enforce federal inspection laws, and a favorable decision by the Supreme Court to block construction of what was slated to be one of the largest hog factory farms in the country. Nonetheless, Eisnitz makes it clear that abuses continue and much work still needs to be done.
|
 |
The Slaughter of Terrified Beasts: A Biblical Basis for the Humane Treatment of Animalsby J. R. Hyland / Paperback / 86 pagesISBN: 0945703007Price:
About the Book
Although many people quote scripture in order to justify the abuse of animals, their claims have no basis in fact. This book shows that such claims contradict the Bible’s message of God’s love andconcern for all creatures. Written in an easy- to-read style, the author shows that it is man, not God, who decided that animal beings are of less value than human beings.
|
 |
Speaking Out for Animals: True Stories About People Who Rescue Animalsby / Paperback / 242 pagesISBN: 1930051344Price: $18.00
About the Book
No Description…
|
 |
Speciesismby Joan Dunayer / Paperback / 204 pagesISBN: 0970647565Price: $14.78
About the Book
Defining speciesism as “a failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect,” this brilliant work critiques speciesism both outside and inside the animal rights movement. Much moral philosophy, legal theory, and animal advocacy aimed at advancing nonhuman emancipation actually perpetuate speciesism, the book demonstrates. Speciesism examines philosophy, law, and activism in terms of three categories: “old speciesism,” “new speciesism,” and species equality.Old-speciesists limit rights to humans. Speciesism refutes their standard arguments against nonhuman rights. Current law is old-speciesist; legally, nonhumans have no rights. “Animal laws” such as the Humane Slaughter Act afford nonhumans no meaningful protection, Dunayer shows. She also explains why welfarist campaigns are old-speciesist. Instead of opposing the abuse or killing of nonhuman beings, such campaigns seek only to make abuse or killing less cruel; they propose alternative ways of violating nonhumans’ moral rights. Many organizations that consider themselves animal rights engage in old-speciesist campaigns, which reinforce the property status of nonhumans rather than promote their emancipation.
|
 |
The Souls of Animalsby Gary Kowalski / Paperback / 160 pagesISBN: 1883478219Price:
About the Book
A classic book on animal spirituality – now updated and expanded. In this book, author Gary Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual:playfulness, capacity for love, altruism, and awareness of death. Kowalski reminds us, “If we are to keep Earth safe for coming generations, we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life.
|
-
 |
Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activismby Mark Hawthorne / Paperback / 304 pagesISBN: 1846940915Price: $13.57
About the Book
Whether you’re new to the world of animal advocacy, a longtime vegan, or traveling somewhere between these points in your life’s journey, STRIKING AT THE ROOTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ANIMAL ACTIVISM is one book you’ll want to read. Activists from all walks of life can glean new tips, tricks, strategies, and perhaps even some much-needed motivation from author/activist Mark Hawthorne’s introductory guide to acting on behalf of animals.STRIKING AT THE ROOTS offers an overview of the many types of “animal activism” that advocates may engage in. These range from traditional to high-tech, visible to behind-the-scenes, and dramatic to low-key – as is exemplified by pattrice jones (author of AFTERSHOCK and a founder of Eastern Shore Sanctuary) in the above quote. No matter your personality, interests, and talents, you’re sure to find an action you can take to help your fellow earthlings RIGHT NOW
|
 |
Strolling with Our Kin: Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animalsby Marc Bekoff / Paperback / 128 pagesISBN: 1881699021Price:
About the Book
Bekoff takes the reader on a philosophical and ethical odyssey examining how we can all live in harmony with our fellow kin. He asks us to explore our thoughts and expand our views of a world made up of many species, only one of which is human. He shines a light on our own ethical inconsistencies and asks readers where we go from here. Bekoff leaves us with the feeling that we too can help save and heal animals in this world, and that we too can stroll with our kin by acting on behalf of them.
|
 |
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animalsby Karen Dawn / Paperback / 400 pagesISBN: 0061351857Price: $13.57
About the Book
The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick’s dog fighting scandal to the incredible success of the bestselling Skinny Bitch veggie diet book, animal rights issues have hit the headlines—and are being championed by students and senators, pop stars and producers, and actors and activists.Don’t you want to be part of the conversation? In Thanking the Monkey, Karen Dawn covers pets, fur, fashion, food, animal testing, activism, and more. But as the title playfully suggests, this isn’t like any previous animal rights book. Thanking the Monkey is light on lectures meant to make you feel guilty if you’re not a leather-eschewing vegan. It lets you have fun as you learn about Paul McCartney’s love of lambs and why Prince won’t wear wool. You’ll meet Fall Out Boy’s Andy Hurley and Pete Wentz—and their favorite traveling companion, Hemingway, Pete’s dog. You’ll read why Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone, and so many of those skinny but not bitchy actresses won’t eat or wear animals. And you’ll laugh over dozens of cartoons from Dan Piraro’s Bizzaro to other animal-friendly comics. . |
 |
They Shall Not Hurt or Destroyby Vasu Murti / Paperback / 140 pagesISBN: 0971667616Price: $15.00
About the Book
One of the best-kept secrets of Judaism and Christianity is that both religions have rich traditions favoring vegetarianism. They Shall Not Hurt or Destroy explores the many Judeo-Christian writersand leaders who have argued that God cares about all Creation, and so should we. The core values and teachings of these faiths, author Vasu Murti concludes, encourage plant-based eating.
|
 |
An Unnatural Order: Roots of Our Destruction of Natureby Jim Mason / Paperback / 324 pagesISBN: 1590560817Price: $17.95
About the Book
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order has become a classic. Now in a new Lantern edition, the book explores, from an anthropological, sociocultural, and holistic perspective, how and why we have cut ourselves off from other animals and the natural world, and the toll this has taken on our consciousness, our ability to steward nature wisely, and the will to control our own tendencies.
|
 |
Way of Compassionby Martin Rowe / Paperback / 256 pagesISBN: 0966405609Price: $19.95
About the Book
No Description…
|
-
 |
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnismby Melanie Joy PhD / Hardcover / 208 pagesISBN: 1573244619Price: $13.57
About the Book
Despite a penchant for melodrama, Joy (Strategic Action for Animals) offers an absorbing examination of why humans feel affection and compassion for certain animals but are callous to the suffering of others—especially those slaughtered for our consumption. She takes Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s well-trod route and investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals are treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. She uses her factory farm–to–table narrative to buttress her real thesis: meat-eating or carnism, is an oppressive ideology as noxious as racism. Joy casts meat eating as genocide, comparable to the Holocaust, and factory farming on a par with the American enslavement of Africans. She might lose some readers in her zealotry, but there is great value in her contention that all systems of oppression depend on our ability to dissociate or find elaborate rationalizations to keep from recognizing the suffering of a socially sanctioned inferior. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved… |
-
 |
Who Cares About Animal Rightsby Michael Twinn / Hardcover / 32 pagesISBN: 0859533581Price: $7.99
About the Book
In One World, every living creature has its place, a right to life and a right to survival. Our love for animals is tempered by human need and self-interest. But is cruelty inevitable? Is it possible for human nature to change? Animal Rights gets to the core of issues which concern even the youngest children. Arlette Lavie’s illustrations enhance the text. 7 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ For children ages 6-16 years.
|
-
 |
Worship Not The Creature: Animal Rights and the Bibleby J. Y. Jones / Hardcover / 176 pagesISBN: 098249291XPrice: $14.96
About the Book
This soon to be published title Worship Not the Creature: Animal Rights and the Bible delivers the most forthright and engaging presentation of the Biblical view of animals in print. J. Y. Jones, long an accomplished physician, scholar, writer, outdoorsman, hunter, and man of God, is uniquely qualified to offer his cutting-edge treatment of this controversial topic. Don’t let the down-to-earth, diverting and friendly style fool you. Just as Americas wise Founding Fathers discovered latent tyranny in a penny tea tax, Dr. Jones powerfully exposes the radical political agenda of the contemporary animal rights movement. With careful argument, he reveals the animal rights movement as a potentially significant menace to liberty and even to Christianity itself. Adding Dr. Joness able apologetic for the Christian faith in reasoned and transparently personal terms, one should prepare for a rich, compelling, and enjoyable read.
|
Web Links
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
View this site at: www.peta.org
PETA, with more than a million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals, PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.”
Action for Animals
View this site at: www.afa-online.org/
AFA operates under the simple principle that animals do not exist for humans to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. We promote a Vegan lifestyle. AFA strives to end animal suffering through educational outreach, demonstrations, and media involvement.”
All-creatures.org: Working for a Peaceable Kingdom for Humans, Animals, and the Environment
View this site at: www.all-creatures.org/
A wealth of articles and photographs on animal rights and welfare issues, articles connecting Christian and Jewish faiths with these issues and healthy vegetarian recipes. Do not miss this website!”
Animal Aid
View this site at: www.animalaid.org.uk/
Animal Aid is an UK based organization working through peaceful means, for an end to all animal cruelty.”
Animal Place
View this site at: www.animalplace.org
This California based animal sanctuary and education centre promotes veganism and carries out campaigns to meets its humane goals.
Animal Protection Institute
View this site at: www.api4animals.org/
The Animal Protection Institute (API) is a US based animal advocacy organization. API uses powerful tools including legislation, public education, litigation, and grassroots networking. API’s primary campaign areas currently include animals used in entertainment, captive exotic animals, companion animals, compassionate consumerism, farmed animals, and wildlife protection.”
Animals & Society
View this site at: www.animalsandsociety.org/
The Animals and Society Institute is a nonprofit, independent research and educational organization that advances the status of animals in public policy, and promotes the study of human-animal relationships. The ASI seeks to advance institutional change for animals by helping to establish the moral and legal rights fundamental to a just, compassionate and peaceful society.
The ASI is the result of the 2005 merger of two well-respected organizations: the Society and Animals Forum (formerly Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, run by Kenneth Shapiro, Ph.D.), and the Institute for Animals and Society (previously known as the Animal Rights Network, publisher of The Animals’ Agenda magazine, and led by Kim W. Stallwood). Ken Shapiro and Kim Stallwood are now the co-executive directors of the Animals and Society Institute, which has its main office in Baltimore, Maryland.
The ASI will soon combine the web sites from its two component organizations.”
The Animals Voice
View this site at: www.animalsvoice.com
The Animals Voice is the premiere online resource for helping animals. An award-winning, independent, networking source of recent media coverage, timely information, and an incalculable volume of resources for animals and their defenders. Featuring the latest animal rights news, multimedia, calendar, victories, thought-provoking and inspirational editorial, graphic and compelling photography, and in-depth investigative reports. ”
Animal Welfare Advocacy
View this site at: www.animalwelfareadvocacy.org/
Animal Welfare Advocacy’s is a US based organization whose mission is to alleviate animal suffering and promote the well being of animals through the legislative and political advocacy process.
The Animal Welfare Institute
View this site at: www.awionline.org/
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
The Animal Welfare Trust
View this site at: www.animalwelfaretrust.org
Founded in January of 2001, ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST is devoted to promoting the well being of the animal community. They believe animals have rights to experience a life of respect, free from unnecessary suffering.”
The Culture and Animals Foundation
View this site at: www.cultureandanimals.org
The Culture and Animals foundation is a US based cultural organization committed to fostering the growth of intellectual and artistic endeavors united by a positive concern for animals.
Friends of Animals
View this site at: http://www.friendsofanimals.org
Friends of Animals, founded in 1957, advocates for the right of to live free according to their own terms.
Humane Society of the United States
View this site at: www.hsus.org/
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has worked since 1954 to promote the protection of all animals. With nearly ten million members and constituents, The HSUS is United State’s largest and most powerful animal protection organization, fighting animal cruelty and abuse in all of its forms. HSUS works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for public policies to protect animals, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about the issues, and conducting hands-on programs, such as assisting animals when disasters strike. ”
International fund for animal welfare
View this site at: www.ifaw.org
The International Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty and abuse, protect wildlife and provide animal rescue around the world. From stopping the elephant ivory trade, to ending the Canadian seal hunt and saving the whales from extinction, IFAW works to create solutions that benefit both animals and people.”
Tom Regan’s animal rights website
View this site at: www.tomregan-animalrights.com
Tom Regan, is the author of ‘Empty Cages, Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights’. This is one of the best introductions to animal rights ever written. This website provides a host of links to sites with animal rights information.”
IN Defense of Animals
View this site at: www.idausa.org
In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat. IDA’s efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi and Cameroon, Africa.
