| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 386 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-371) and index. |
| Summary |
A hip, accessible "ultimate primer" on animal rights and welfare by the international spokesperson for the animal protection movement and founder of the media watch e-newsletter DawnWatch.com. Covers the entire, broad-ranging spectrum of the animal protection movement, from animal-friendly fashion and food to animal testing and the use or abuse of animals in the entertainment industry. |
| Contents |
1. Welcome to the world of animal rights -- Animal rights vs. human rights -- Animal what? -- The anti-welfare warriors -- Spotlight on speciesism -- On equating life -- Mirror, mirror -- Are there limits? -- Can't we all just get along? -- 2. Slaves to love : pets -- Canine Americans? -- Should we have pets at all? -- Breedism -- Paritney's pet store adventures -- Copycat killings -- Expensive mutts -- Ritzy rescues -- Paula and the pit bullies -- Cut off his balls? -- Doggie Prozac? -- Females first -- To kill or not to kill? -- The bound leading the blind -- Making your dog a swan -- Kitty mob makeovers -- The dog-eat-dog world of dog food -- Robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage -- Confining Nemo -- Jurassic bowl -- Our interspecies families -- "Best friends need shelter, too" -- 3. All the world's a cage : animal entertainment -- A bloody history continues -- The ABCDs of animal entertainment -- Acquisition -- Brutality -- Confinement -- Disposal -- Behind the big top -- An elephant never forgets a bullhook -- Chains, trains, and automobiles -- Zoos, it's no jungle in there -- The elephant in the room -- Spare the rod and spoil the star -- Thai torture -- Out with the old -- Canned hunting -- Wanted, dead or alive -- Curiosity killed the chimp -- Please don't eat the animals -- Urban elephant -- Marine parks -- Shame shame Shamu -- Lolita, slave to entertainment -- Hollywood stories -- Tarzan and Jane Goodall -- It's hard out here for a chimp -- Oliver's travels -- My dead Flicka -- Flipper's suicide -- Cowboys and injuries, the rodeo -- Shocking abuse -- Bloodless bullfights? -- Just kidding fishing -- Running for their lives, the racing industries -- Derby winner dinner -- Dead dog walking -- The great turtle race -- A better tomorrowland -- 4. Fashion victims : animal clothing -- Fur, you have to be pretty cold -- Going clubbing -- How much is that dead doggie in the window? -- Faux faux -- Do nice girls fake it? -- Leather, a fatal fetish -- Not so warm and fuzzy wool -- A pound of flesh -- Sheep shipping -- Down, no comforter for the animals -- Silkworm union? -- Toward fashion with compassion -- |
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5. Deconstructing dinner -- At the slaughterhouse -- Dying piece by piece -- Fowl outs -- Pilgrim's shame -- Butterball bullies -- Raeford rocky rehearsals -- Kosher kindness? -- Highway to hell -- Poultry in motion -- Long day's journey into night -- Talk about a downer -- Factory farming -- Life in a coffin, the sow gestation crate -- Communal crates -- Chickens can't stand in standing room only -- A hard act to swallow, foie gras -- "Thanking the turkey who change Thanksgiving" -- This steer's life -- Kill a horse to eat a cow -- A mane course -- Eating Nemo, fish -- Fish school -- Gregarious groupers -- Long deaths on long lines -- Gruesome gill nets -- Trawling and "trash animals" -- Dolphin discards -- Feedlots of the sea -- Fishy business practices -- A shark's tale -- Why vegan, no eggs or dairy? -- California's unhappy cows -- Babes in the wood crates -- "Got milk? You've got problems" -- Egg-regious cruelty -- Chicken run lessons -- Zombie chickens -- Scrambled egg layers -- Label laws and label lies -- Wholesome organics? -- Organic dairy (factory) farms -- Welfare wiggle room -- The chicken and the egg labels -- Cage-free eggs, not all they're cracked up to be -- Scamming caring consumers -- Bee vomit -- Happy hunting -- In vitro meat, the best thing since sliced bread? -- Human health -- Ronald McDonald strikes again -- "There's shit in the meat" -- Dangerous liaisons -- Fuzzy recall -- Everything old is new again -- Method in the mad cow madness -- Added dangers -- Finger-lickin' bad for you -- Skinny chick? -- More to make you chicken out -- Mercury rising in the ocean -- Other funky fish facts -- Not milk -- Chew the right thing -- Taking care with vegan fare -- Veggie power -- Why hurt anybody if you don't have to? -- |
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6. Animals anonymous : animal testing -- Torture is legal -- Do animal tests save human lives? -- Should we refuse animal-tested medicine? -- Spare parts, xenotransplantation -- Bitter medicine -- Testing painkillers painlessly? -- What we already know hurts them -- Necessary evils? -- Maternal deprivation madness -- Baboons on ecstasy -- He's just not that into ewe -- Femme fatalities -- Really painful periods -- ...and difficult pregnancies -- Foods that fatten drug company wallets -- Killing animals to kill people -- Weapons of dog destruction -- Taser tales -- Pigs of war -- Innocent until proven animal -- Looks that kill -- Binding beauty -- Skin deep -- Botoxic -- Who would you kill for brighter whites? -- Are rats and mice animals? -- Like a used tissue -- Depressing depression studies -- Is it ever right to experiment on animals? -- Let's look at Aziz -- Facing Felix -- Fox and Felix -- Voluntary guinea pigs -- Thanking the monkey -- The unnatural history of chimpanzees -- The Chimp Act -- Are some animals more equal than others? -- So where do we go from here? -- The seduction of reduction -- The gentle touch of refinement -- Ultimately, replacement -- |
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7. The greenies -- The earth is common ground -- Fighting factory-farm filth -- Pig shit lagoons and rivers -- Dairy farm delights -- What if the shit don't stink? -- A gory Gorey truth -- Little piggies, eating everybody else's food -- War on the whales -- Deadly decibels -- The warring rainbow warriors -- Green meanies -- Death by do-gooders -- Hunting, the great divide -- Audubowhunt society? -- The ghost of Mr.Muir -- National wilddeath federation -- Bloodbath in the nursery -- Killing to be kind? -- The right to arm bears? -- Bambi's revenge -- The removal of the fittest -- Nature conservancy annihilations -- Drive-by population control? -- Natural allies -- 8. Compassion in action -- The best government money can buy -- Horsing around with the law -- Legislators brining home the bacon -- Power to the poopers -- Ballot boxes -- Living with electile dysfunction -- Se ya later animal hater -- Crossing the line to save lives -- Letters to the legislature -- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- On hating Heifer -- Media matters -- Media circus -- Slaughterhouse five TV -- The power of one -- Animal love letters -- DawnWatch -- From armchairs to sidewalks -- Running of the nudes -- Freedom fighters -- From the front line to the front page -- Outsourcing tech support and torture support -- Militant mishaps -- Grave consequences -- SHAC backlash -- A SHAC retraction? -- The psychology of persuasion -- Personal change -- Flexitarian or very vegan? -- Talk the walk -- Recommended resource groups -- PETA and PETA2 -- Farm Sanctuary -- Other animal sanctuaries -- Legislation, HSUS -- Health issues -- Animals in entertainment -- Conservation -- Grass roots groups -- For your body and soul -- And finally, MEDIA! -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Subject |
Animal welfare.
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Animal rights.
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| Note |
Prepublication title: Everything you wanted to know about animal rights, but were afraid to get into a fight about |
| ISBN |
9780061351853 paperback |
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0061351857 paperback |
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