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Animal
Equality : Language and Liberation
by
Joan Dunayer, Carol J. Adams
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.
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Animal Factories
by Jim Mason, Peter Singer (Contributor)
This book raised a storm of controversy upon its original publication
in 1980. Now authors Mason and Singer have updated their animal
rights classic for the 1990s. More than 50 black-and-white photographs.
Ingram
Unrestrained
technology applied to animals, fueled by the desire for increased
profit, exacts a price on human values, the environment, the health
of consumers and the welfare of small farmers that we can no longer
afford to pay. Mason and Singer address these problems and offer
solutions in Animal Factories Update. Black-and-white photographs.
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Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
Animal Liberation is the revised and updated edition of the definitive
animal liberation text, that reports that many of the abuses of
the past have decreased, serious new offenses have taken their place.
This book will attract supporters and skeptics alike because of
its persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice.
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Animals, Property, and the Law
by Gary L. Francione, William M. Kunstler
"Here is a work of unquestionable historic importance the
likes of which the world of ideas has never seen before: profound
in its conception, execution, and its possible consequences. Gary
Francione brings a real world understanding second to none in
how American law impacts animals. It will be of interest to professionals
in law, philosophy, government, veterinary medicine, and political
science, but also among those who 'use' animals and those who
profess the desire to protect them."
—Tom Regan, North Caroling State University
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Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and
Exotic Species
by Alan Green
A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in
the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal
Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes
the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and
exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal
which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus"
animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into
the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal auctions,
where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers,
hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading
as conservationists. We visit some of the nation's most prestigious
universities and research laboratories, whose diseased monkeys
are "laundered" through this same network of breeders
and dealers until they finally reach the homes of unsuspecting
pet owners. And we meet the men and women who make their living
by skirting through loopholes in the law, or by ignoring the law
altogether. For anyone who cares about animals; for pet owners,
zoo-goers, wildlife conservationists, and animal welfare advocates,
Animal Underworld is gripping, shocking reading.
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Susan McCarthy, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives
of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth
Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer
whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating
anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof
of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger,
fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative
re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating
them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete and compelling
picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants Weep
assures that we will never look at animals in the same way again.
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Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals
by Steven M. Wise, Jane Goodall
Nonhuman animals are not "persons" in the legal sense
and therefore have no legal rights. Wise, an animal rights activist
and lawyer, argues for the entitlement of animals to legal rights
in this scholarly new book. The author defines exactly what is
meant by legal personhood through an overview of cases involving
humans and demonstrates how this definition can be applied to
animals, specifically chimpanzees and bonobos. The book's title
is somewhat misleading, as the vast majority of the author's arguments
refer to these two great apes, our closest relatives. The parallels
drawn between legal arguments for human rights and research showing
that apes demonstrate the same mental capacities as the human
persons make for a compelling argument against the injustice of
denying basic legal rights to apes. The text is extensively footnoted
with quotes from a vast body of literature, legal and otherwise.
Whether or not readers are convinced by Wise's arguments, they
will find much to think about in this carefully reasoned and well-written
book. Nancy Bent
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health,
Happiness
and the Future of Life on Earth
by John Robbins
From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened
the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet
for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen
a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic
shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be
one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling
examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United
States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price
we pay for it.
In
Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at our dependence
on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under which these
animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we pay for
our eating habits is measured in the suffering of animals, a suffering
so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place in the
web of life.
Section
II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a requirement
for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of disease
caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other chemicals
now a routine part of our food production. The author shows us
that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the production,
preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a healthy
process.
In
Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of a meat-based
diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources necessary
to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological crisis.
Diet
for a New America is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian
lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly
written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate,
but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.:
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