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Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals

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Table of Contents

One. Welcome to the World of Animal Rights
Page | 1
Animal Rights vs. Human Rights
Page | 2
Animal What?
Page | 3
Page The Anti-Welfare Warriors | 5
Spotlight on Speciesism
Page | 9
Page On Equating Life | 10
Page Mirror, Mirror | 14
Are There Limits?
Page | 18
Can't We All Just Get Along?
Page | 19
two. slaves to love
Page Pets | 21
Canine Americans?
Page | 21
Should We Have Pets at All?
Page | 22
Breedism
Page | 24
Paritney's Pet Store Adventures
Page | 26
Copycat Killings
Page | 28
Expensive Mutts
Page | 29
Ritzy Rescues
Page | 30
Paula and the Pit Bullies
Page | 30
Cut Off His Balls?
Page | 33
Doggie Prozac?
Page | 34
Females First
Page | 35
To Kill or Not to Kill?
Page | 36
The Bound Leading the Blind
Page | 38
Making Your Dog a Swan
Page | 41
Kitty Mob Makeovers
Page | 42
The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Dog Food
Page | 43
Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts All Heaven in a Rage
Page | 46
Confining Nemo
Page | 49
Jurassic Bowl
Page | 50
Our Interspecies Families
Page | 51
Page "Best Friends Need Shelter, Too" | 56
three. All the world's a cage
Page Animal Entertainment | 59
A Bloody History Continues
Page | 59
Page The ABCDs of Animal Entertainment | 60
Page Acquisition | 60
Page Brutality | 60
Page Confinement | 60
Page Disposal | 60
Behind the Big Top
Page | 61
Page An Elephant Never Forgets a Bullhook | 63
Page Chains, Trains, and Automobiles | 65
Zoos - It's No Jungle in There
Page | 66
Page The Elephant in the Room | 67
Page Spare the Rod and Spoil the Star | 68
Page Thai Torture | 69
Page Out with the Old | 69
Page Canned Hunting | 70
Page Wanted - Dead or Alive | 70
Page Curiosity Killed the Chimp | 71
Page Please Don't Eat the Animals | 71
Page Urban Elephant | 71
Marine Parks
Page | 74
Page Shame Shame Shamu | 74
Page Lolita - Slave to Entertainment | 77
Hollywood Stories
Page | 79
Page Tarzan and Jane Goodall | 79
Page It's Hard Out Here for a Chimp | 80
Page Oliver's Travels | 81
Page My Dead Flicka | 83
Page Flipper's Suicide | 84
Cowboys and Injuries - The Rodeo
Page | 87
Page Shocking Abuse | 87
Page Bloodless Bullfights? | 87
Just Kidding Fishing
Page | 89
Running for Their Lives - The Racing Industries
Page | 91
Page Derby Winner Dinner | 91
Page Dead Dog Walking | 96
Page The Great Turtle Race | 98
A Better Tomorrowland
Page | 99
four. Fashion Victims
Page Animal Clothing | 105
Fur - You Have to be Pretty Cold
Page | 105
Page Going Clubbing | 107
Page How Much is That Dead Doggie in the Window? | 109
Page Faux Faux | 110
Page Do Nice Girls Fake it? | 111
Leather - A Fatal Fetish
Page | 114
Not So Warm and Fuzzy Wool
Page | 117
Page A Pound of Flesh | 120
Page Sheep Shipping | 120
Down - No Comforter for the Animals
Page | 121
Silkworm Union?
Page | 122
Toward Fashion with Compassion
Page | 124
five. Deconstructing Dinner
Page | 127
At the Slaughterhouse
Page | 127
Page Dying Piece by Piece | 127
Page Fowl Outs | 129
Page Pilgrim's Shame | 131
Page Butterball Bullies | 131
Page Raeford Rocky Rehearsals | 131
Page Kosher Kindess? | 132
Highway to Hell
Page | 133
Page Poultry in Motion | 136
Page Long Day's Journey into Night | 136
Page Talk About a Downer | 137
Factory Farming
Page | 138
Page Life in a Coffin - The Sow Gestation Crate | 139
Page Communal Crates | 141
Page Chickens Can't Stand in Standing Room Only | 143
Page A Hard Act to Swallow - Foi Gras | 144
Page "Thanking the Turkey Who Changed Thanksgiving?" | 146
The Steer's Life
Page | 148
Kill a horse to Eat a Cow
Page | 150
Page A Mane Course | 150
Eating Nemo - Fish
Page | 152
Page Fish School | 155
Page Gregarious Groupers | 155
Page Long Deaths on Lone Lines | 156
Page Gruesome Gill Nets | 156
Page Trawling and "Trash Animals" | 157
Page Dolphin Discards | 157
Page Feedlots of the Sea | 158
Page Fishy Business Practices | 160
Page A Shark's Tale | 161
Why Vegan - No Eggs or Dairy?
Page | 161
Page California's Unhappy Cows | 162
Page Babes in the Wood Crates | 165
Page "Got Milk? You've Got Problems" | 166
Page Egg-regious Cruelty | 169
Page Chicken Run Lessons | 170
Page Zombie Chickens | 171
Page Scrambled Egg Layers | 172
Label Laws and Label Lies
Page | 172
Page Wholesome Organics? | 172
Page Organic Dairy (Factory) Farms | 174
Page Welfare Wiggle Room | 175
Page The Chicken and the Egg Labels | 176
Page Cage-Free Eggs - Not All They're Cracked Up to Be | 177
Page Scamming Caring Consumers | 178
Bee Vomit
Page | 179
Happy Hunting
Page | 189
In Vitro Meat - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?
Page | 184
Human Health
Page | 186
Page Ronald McDonald Strikes Again | 186
Page "There's Shit in the Meat" | 187
Page Dangerous Liaisons | 189
Page Fuzzy Recall | 190
Page Everything Old is New Again | 190
Page Method in the Mad Cow Madness | 192
Page Added Dangers | 194
Page Finger-Lickin' Bad for You | 195
Page Skinny Chick? | 196
Page More to Make You Chicken Out | 196
Page Mercury rising in the Ocean | 197
Page Other Funky Fish Facts | 200
Page Not Milk | 200
Page Chew the Right Thing | 202
Page Taking Care with Vegan Fare | 205
Page Veggie Power | 208
Why Hurt Anybody If You Don't Have To?
Page | 212
six. Animals Anonymous
Page Animal Testing | 215
Torture is Legal
Page | 215
Do Animal Tests Save Human Lives?
Page | 216
Page Should We Refuse Animal - Tested Medicine? | 221
Page Spare Parts - Xenotransplanation | 221
Page Bitter Medicine | 222
Page Testing Painkillers Painlessly | 225
Page What We Already Know Hurts Them | 225
Necessary Evils?
Page | 226
Page Maternal Deprivation Madness | 226
Page Baboons on Ecstasy | 228
Page He's Just Not That into Ewe | 229
Page Femme Fatalities | 231
Page Really Painful Periods | 231
Page ... And Difficult Pregnancies | 232
Page Foods That Fatten Drug Company Wallets | 234
Killing Animals to Kill People
Page | 236
Page Weapons on Dog Destruction | 236
Page Taser Tales | 236
Page Pigs of War | 237
Page Innocent Until Proven Animals | 237
Looks That Kill
Page | 238
Page Blinding Beauty | 239
Page Skin Deep | 240
Page Botoxic | 241
Who Would You Kill for Brighter Whites?
Page | 241
Are Rats and Mice Animals?
Page | 245
Page Like a Used Tissue | 248
Page Depressing Depression Studies | 248
Is It Ever Right to Experiment on Animals?
Page | 250
Page Let's Look at Aziz | 250
Page Facing Felix | 250
Page Fox and Felix | 254
Voluntary Guinea Pigs
Page | 258
Thanking the Monkey
Page | 260
Page The Unnatural history of Chimpanzees | 261
Page The Chimp Act | 267
Page Are Some Animals More Equal Than Others? | 267
So Where Do We Go from Here?
Page | 268
Page The Seduction of Reduction | 268
Page The Gentle Touch of Refinement | 269
Page Ultimately - Replacement | 269
seven. The Greenies
Page | 273
The Earth is Common Ground
Page | 273
Fighting Factory - Farm Filth
Page | 274
Page Pig Shit Lagoons and Rivers | 274
Page Dairy Farm Delights | 275
Page What if the Shit Don't Stink | 276
Page A Gory Gorey Truth | 277
Page Little Piggies - Eating Everybody Else's Food | 279
War on the Whales
Page | 284
Page Deadly Decibels | 284
Page The Warring Rainbow Warriors | 286
Green Meanies
Page | 288
Page Death by Do - gooders | 288
Hunting - The Great Divide
Page | 289
Page Audubowhunt Society? | 292
Page The Ghost of Mr. Muir | 292
Page National Wilddeath Federation | 293
Page Bloodbath in the Nursery | 293
Page Killing to Be Kind? | 296
Page The Right to Arm Bears | 297
Page Bambi's Revenge | 299
Page The Removal of the Fittest | 299
Page Nature Conservancy Annihilations | 300
Page Drive-by Population Control? | 301
Natural Allies
Page | 302
eight. Compassion in Action
Page | 305
The Best Government Money Can Buy
Page | 305
Page Horsing Around with the Law | 306
Page Legislators Bringing Home the Bacon | 310
Page Power to the Poopers | 310
Page Ballot Boxes | 311
Page Living with Electile Dysfucntion | 311
Page See Ya Later Animal Hater | 313
Page Crossing the Line to Save Lives | 313
Page Letters to the Legislature | 314
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Page | 315
Page On Hating Heifer | 316
Media Matters
Page | 318
Page Media Circus | 321
Page Slaughterhouse Five TV | 324
Page The Power of One | 326
Page Animal Love Letters | 326
Page DawnWatch | 327
Page From Armchairs to Sidewalks | 328
Page Running of the Nudes | 330
Freedom Fighters
Page | 333
Page From the Front Line to the Front Page | 333
Page Outsourcing Tech Support and Torture Support | 335
Page Militant Mishaps | 336
Page Grave Consequences | 336
Page SHAC Backlash | 337
Page A SHAC Retraction? | 342
The Psychology of Persuasion
Page | 343
Personal Change
Page | 346
Page Flexitarian or Very Vegan? | 346
Talk the Walk
Page | 348
recommended resource groups.
Page | 350
PETA and PETA2
Page | 350
Farm Sanctuary
Page | 350
Other Animal Sanctuaries
Page | 350
Legislation - HSUS
Page | 351
Health Issues
Page | 351
Animals in Entertainment
Page | 352
Conservation
Page | 352
Grass Roots Groups
Page | 352
For Your Body and Soul
Page | 352
And Finally, MEDIA!
Page | 353
notes.
Page | 354
acknowledgments.
Page | 372
index.
Page | 374

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV4708 .D383 2008, HV4708 .D3818 2008, HV4708, HV4708 .D39 2008

Contributors

Designer
Joy O'Meara

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
386p.
Number of pages
400
Dimensions
9 x 7 x 1 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9952501M
Internet Archive
thankingmonkeyre0000dawn
ISBN 10
0061351857
ISBN 13
9780061351853
LCCN
2008530961
OCLC/WorldCat
182663130
Library Thing
4744609
Goodreads
2604604

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