|
Title |
Author |
Yr, publ. |
Description |
Category |
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A Bird Shall Carry The Voice |
Farris, Leigh |
2005. Trafford Publishing, Ltd. |
True story of experiences and insights gained while sharing life with a
bird. Highly recommended. |
Sharing life with a
parrot. |
|
Advances in Animal Alternatives for Safety and Efficacy Testing |
Salem, Harry and Sidney Katz, eds. |
1998. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis |
Presents state-of-the-art concepts and approaches to the theory and practice of
alternatives to animal testing in laboratory research. Nearly 50 contributions
from leading experts are grouped into five categories: dermal toxicity,
developmental and reproductive toxicity, immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and
oral/dermal/ocular validation. |
|
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Aftershock |
jones, pattrice |
2007. Lantern Books. |
Confronting Trauma in a Violent World. A Guide for Activists and
their Allies. |
|
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All Creatures of Our God and King
What God?s Word Says About Animals |
Wilson, Teri |
2007. Eden Publishing |
It reaches out to the Christian community, which has been slow to support the
animal welfare movement. |
|
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All that Dwell Therein: Essays on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics. |
Regan, Tom, ed. |
1983. Berkeley: University of California Press |
A series of essays on animal rights. This fact-filled book
puts forth original thoughts on why animals have rights and refutes statements
made by others who feel animals should be denied rights. |
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|
Alternative to Factory Farming |
Carnell, Paul |
1983. Earth Resources Research Publishers, London |
Factory farming challenged on economic grounds. |
Factory
Farming |
|
Animals and Cruelty and Law |
Sweeney, Noel |
1990. Alibi, Bristol UK |
A practicing barrister argues for Animal Rights from the legal
standpoint. |
Law |
|
Animals and Their Legal Rights: A Survey
of American Laws from 1641 to 1990. |
Animal Welfare Institute |
1990. Washington, DC. Animal Welfare
Institute |
This excellent resource provides a
description of major federal and state laws affecting the treatment of animals.
Although somewhat outdated, nothing comparable has replaced it. |
Legi-slation |
|
Animals and Why They Matter |
Midgley, Mary |
1983. Athens: University of Georgia Press |
A nontechnical narrative exploring how social-contract thinking has shaped our
moral and political ideas and the problems this has raised for those who are not
"proper" contractors, such as women, animals, and aliens. Provides a critical
assessment of the attempt to extend conventional moral categories such as rights
to animals. |
|
|
Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters
in the Wild |
Childs, Craig |
2007. Little, Brown & Co. |
The well-known naturalist tells of his strenuous attempts to
bridge the gulf in communication with the wildest ? and often the oddest ? of
creatures |
wild animals |
|
Animal Factories |
Mason, Jim and Peter Singer |
1980. New York: Crown Publishers 1990 AVS |
Provides a detailed account of the conditions under which laying hens, broiler
hens, pigs, cows, and veal calves are kept; the illnesses generated by these
conditions; and the solutions, in the form of drugs and mutilations, provided by
the industry. |
|
|
Animal Liberation |
Singer, Peter |
1975. Thorsons, London. Third edition 2002 |
Often called "The Bible of the modern Animal Rights movement". For many leaders
of the animal protection movement, this was a life-changing book. |
|
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Animals Matter: A
Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect |
Bekoff, Marc |
2007 |
Animal behaviorist and biologist follows his most recent in-depth
work, The Emotional Life of Animals, with another well-written, more generalist
argument for responsible behavior toward animals of all kinds. |
Philo-sophy |
|
Animal Equality |
Dunayer,
Joan |
|
Language and Liberation
Dialectic of Deceit Shows
societies built-in bias against animals. |
Animal Rights |
|
Animal Experimentation - A Harvest Of Shame |
Fadali, Moneim A., MD |
1996. Hidden springs Press |
Dr. Fadali is a practising Vascular and Cardiothoracic surgeon. He takes us
through 2,000 years of medical history to show that vivisection has done nothing
to advance, and much to retard, the growth of modern medical procedures and
knowledge. |
Vivi-section |
|
Animal Experimentation: The Consensus Changes |
Langley, Gill (Ed.) |
1991. MacMillan Publishers, London |
Collection of essays outlining the change in morality. |
|
|
Animal Ingredients A-Z (new) |
The E.G. Smith Collective |
2008 |
updated version of classic |
|
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Animals in Circuses and Zoos--Chiron's World? |
Kiley-Worthington, Marthe |
1990. Little Eco Farms Publishing, Basildon, UK |
Investigation into the treatment of animals by zoos and circuses. |
Circuses, Zoos |
|
Animals in Education: The facts, Issue and Implications |
Hepner, Lisa Ann |
1994. Albuquerque. Richmond Publishers |
Guidebook on alternatives to the use of animals in education written by a
student who was successful in implementing alternatives to dissection. Facts
about dissection, legal issues, and strategies for students. |
Animal Tests |
|
Animals in Research: New Perspectives in Animal Experimentation |
Sperlinger, David, ed. |
1981. New York: John Wiley & Sons |
A collection of essays bringing a wide range of knowledge and
opinion, from both Europe and North America, to bear on the question of animal
experimentation. |
|
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Animal Machines |
Harrison, Ruth |
1964. Vincent Stuart Publishers, London |
The first book on factory farming. |
Factory Farming |
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Animals, Men and Morals |
Godlovitch, et al |
1971. |
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Animals, Politics, and Morality |
Garner, Robert. |
1993. New York: Manchester University Press. |
Argues that the debate in moral philosophy about animal rights is central to an
understanding of AR politics. Examines philosophical claims for animals, and
shows how these moral imperatives have a political dimension. |
|
|
Animals, Property and the Law |
Francione, Gary L. |
1995. Philadelphia. Temple University Press |
Provides an analysis of the consequences of characterizing nonhuman animals as
property. Written by an attorney with practical experience litigating
precedent-setting animal rights cases. |
Animal Rights |
|
Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes toward Speciesism |
Ryder, Richard |
1989. Oxford: Basil Blackwell |
Historical review of the British animal rights movement, both in the nineteenth
century and the twentieth, written by a participant in that movement's recent
history. |
|
|
Animal Rights: A Beginner's Guide |
Achor,
Amy |
1992. Writeware Inc., Yellow Springs, OH |
|
Reference |
|
Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment of Man's Treatment of Animals |
Lindzey, Andrew |
1976. London: SCM Press, Ltd. |
An overview of Christian teachings and our treatment of animals, subjects
discussed include: The Right to Live, Animal Suffering and Experience,
Conditions of Life, Theological Reflections, and examples of actual experiments
performed on animals. |
Religion |
|
Animal Rights and Human Morality |
Rollin, Bernard flier:
Animal Rights & Human Morality
(Third Edition; 1-59102-421-8) |
1981. Buffalo, NY. Prometheus Books |
Straightforward overview of several philosophical approaches, their
implications, and their inconsistencies over the issue of the moral status of
animals. A good introduction to major moral issues involving animals. |
|
|
Animal Rights and Human Obligations. |
Regan, Tom and Peter Singer, eds. |
1989. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall |
Provides a good overview of historical and contemporary writings
for and against the idea of animal rights. Contains brief historical pieces by
major philosophers and useful contemporary essays on the nature of animals. |
|
|
Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy |
Franklin, Julian H. |
2005. Columbia Univ. Press |
A clear and fair-minded critique of what contemporary
philosophers have to say about the moral rights of animals. |
|
|
Animal Rights--A Symposium |
Paterson, David and Richard Ryder |
1979. Centaur Press Publishers, Fontwell |
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Animals? Rights: Considered in Relation to Social
Progress |
Salt, Henry S. |
1892, republished in 1980. Summit: Society for Animal Rights |
Sets forth the principles of animal rights and then describes the
ways and means of the suffering imposed on animals as an inevitable consequence
of the denial of their fights. Preface to this edition by Peter Singer. Required
reading by all students of the history of the animal rights movement. |
|
|
Animal Rights, Human Wrongs |
Jenkins, S. |
1992. Lennard Publishings, Harpenden, UK |
An RSPCA officer's experiences demonstrate the lack of adequate animal
legislation |
Law |
|
Animal Rights Weekend Warrior |
Newkirk, Ingrid |
|
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Animal Sacrifices -- Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science |
Tom Regan (Ed.) |
1986. Temple University Press, PA |
|
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Animal Suffering: The Science of Animal Welfare |
Dawkins, Marian |
1980. London. Chapman and Hall |
A scientific treatise on assessing pain and distress in animals. |
|
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Animal Thinking |
Griffin, Donald |
1984. Cambridge: Harvard University Press |
Provides evidence from ecology, neurology, and philosophy to support this
contention that animals think. |
|
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Animal Warfare |
Henshaw, David |
1984. Fontana Publishers, London |
The rise of direct action for Animal Rights. |
|
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An Unnatural Order |
Mason, Jim |
|
The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature |
Social Questions |
|
A Primer on Animal Rights |
Stallwood, Kim W. (ed) Fwd. by J. Rifkin |
|
Leading Experts Write about Animal Cruelty and Exploitation |
|
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Ask the Animals |
Ogden-Avrutik, Dr. Kim |
|
Life Lessons Learned as an Animal Communicator |
|
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Assault and Battery |
Gold, Mark |
1983. Pluton Publishers, London |
Effects of farming on animals, humans and the environment. |
Factory Farming |
|
A Shopper's Guide to Cruelty-Free Products |
Cook, Lori |
1991. Bantam Books, New York |
|
Shopping |
|
Bach Flower Remedies for Animals |
Graham Helen, & Vlamis, Gregory |
|
|
Natural Remedies |
|
Bad Hare Days |
Fitzgerald, John |
2008 |
A story of the author’s high profile involvement in the Irish
anti-hare coursing campaign |
|
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Beast and Man |
Midgley, Mary |
1979. Harvester Press Publishers, Brighton |
|
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Beauty without the Beasts |
Chase, Heather |
|
A Guide to Cruelty-Free Personal Care |
Personal
Growth |
|
Beyond the Bars |
McKenna, Virginia; Travers, William; Wray, Jonathan (eds.) |
1987. Thorsons Publishers, UK |
The immorality of animal captivity |
Zoos, Circuses |
|
Beyond the Laboratory Door |
Animal Welfare Institute |
1985. Washington: The Animal Welfare Institute |
|
Animal Tests |
|
Brute Science -Dilemmas Of Animal Experimentation |
LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall |
1996 Routledge amazon.com |
Thorough investigation and expose of the weaknesses in both the standard defence
and standard criticisms of vivisection. |
|
|
Canines in the Classroom |
Rivera, Michelle |
|
Raising Humane Children through Interactions with Animals |
Education |
|
Cats and Dogs Are People Too! |
Gannon, Sharon |
|
|
Comp-anion Animals |
|
City Dog |
Curtis, Patricia |
|
Choosing and Living Well with a Dog in Town |
Comp-anion
animals |
|
Chicken and Egg: Who pays the price? |
Druce, Clare |
1989. Green Print Publishers, London |
A criticism of the poultry industry. |
Factory Farming |
Chicken: The Dangerous
Transformation of America?s Favorite Food.
|
Striffler, Steve |
2006. |
Book review |
|
|
Christianity and the Rights of Animals |
Lindzey, Andrew |
1987. Crossroad, New York |
Makes a strong case for the rights of animals from within a biblical perspective
and argues that the often repeated claims that Christianity justifies dominion
over animals are mistaken. |
Religion |
|
Committed |
Mathews, Dave |
2007 |
Memoirs of an Activist |
|
|
Compassion Is A Choice |
Sutton, T.E. |
2007, Prurgent |
Explore with urgency this heartbreaking expose into the
short-lived, horrifying existence of our animal friends. |
Factory
Farming |
|
Compassion: The Ultimate Ethic |
Moran, V. |
1991. American Vegan Society, NJ, USA |
Exploration of veganism: its roots in eastern and western philosophy.
|
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Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism |
Rachels, James |
1990. |
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Diet for a New America |
Robbins, John |
1987. Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Publishing |
Examines problems with animal-based food systems with solutions, info on the
link between diet and disease. |
Diet Ethics |
|
Disposable Animals: Ending the Tragedy of Throwaway
Pets |
Brestrup, Craig |
1997. Leander, TX. Camino Bay Books |
Argues that deliberately killing millions
of the animals closest to us each year represents a fundamental failure of
animal advocacy. Unfortunately, the book fails to offer practical solutions to
the problem. |
|
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Do Hens Suffer in Battery Cages? |
Appleby, Michael |
1991.The Athene Trust. Petersfield, Hants
GU32 3EH |
Scientific evidence of hen suffering. |
Factory Farming |
|
Dominion: The Power of Man, the
Suffering of the Animals, and the Call to Mercy |
Scully, Matthew |
2002. St Martin's Press, New York |
Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, conservative Matthew Scully has
written, exquisitely, a compelling book arguing for animal protection on the
grounds not of rights or liberation but of mercy. |
Factory Farming |
|
Don't Drink Your Milk |
Oski, Frank A. M.D. |
1996. New York, Teach Services Inc. |
Director of the Department of Pediatrics, John Hopkins University of Medicine,
explodes the milk myth. |
|
|
Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal
Rights |
Wise, Steven M. |
2002. Perseus books. |
Extends the case for legal rights to include animals other than
apes. His comparisons of the cognitive abilities of various animals with those
of his four year old twins bring home his point with a nice quota of charm, yet
the book is hard hitting, packed with scientific evidence and persuasive legal
arguments. |
|
|
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care |
Spock, Benjamin, M.D. and Parker, Steen, J., M.D. |
1998. New York. Pocket Books. 7th edition |
The chapter on nutrition in this child-rearing bible is a joy for
vegans to read. Spock makes it clear that children do best on vegetarian diets
and that mother's milk, but never cow's milk, is best for baby. |
|
|
Eating With Conscience: The Bioethics of Food. |
Fox, Michael W. |
1997. Troutdale, OR. New Sage Press |
Details the ethical ramifications of consumer food choices. A call to consumers,
farmers, and policy makers to establish a green alliance with each other in
order to change the current food system to protect animals and the environment. |
Diet Ethics |
|
Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality
of Coexistence |
Wemmer, Christen & Christen, Catherine A. |
press. jhu.edu |
"An important and timely contribution to the elephant debate." |
Elephants |
|
Elizabeth Costello |
Coetzee, J.M. |
2003. Viking |
It includes the
two lessons that make up his 1999 book "The Lives of Animals."
The arguments are radical and forceful. |
|
|
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Welfare |
Bekoff, Marc, ed |
1998. Greenwood Press |
A compilation of multidisciplinary essays.
Provides a broad-based and exhaustive overview of the primary issues central to
the animal rights movement. |
Philo-sophy |
|
Entering the Gates of Hell |
Gunn, Brian |
AAVS
Herfordshire. |
Laboratory Cruelty You Were Not Meant to See |
|
|
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights |
Regan, Tom |
|
Empty Cages --review
|
|
|
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the
Holocaust |
Patterson, Charles, Ph.D. |
Eternal Treblinka--Attracting Attention
Around the World |
Isaac Bashevis Singer drew the comparison, explored extensively in this
compelling book.
Treblinka -- review
Treblinka --
review
Treblinka in Germany
Germany's Media |
|
|
Ethics and the Environment |
Jamieson, Dale |
Cambridge University Press |
Is it Ever Right to Shoot Goats, or Spill Raw Sewage into a Pristine Stream?: the Ethical Complexities of Saving the Environment |
|
|
Factory Farming: The Experiment That
Failed |
Animal Welfare Institute |
1988. Washington, DC 20007 |
Fact-packed indictment of factory-farming
on welfare and economic grounds. |
Factory Farming |
|
Facts about Furs |
Nilsson, G. et. al |
1980. Animal Welfare Institute, (op. cit.) |
On fur-farming and trapping. |
Fur-farming |
|
Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues. |
Rollin, Bernard |
1995. Ames: Iowa State University Press |
Striking a balanced and rational approach, urges animal producers and
agricultural scientists to begin to address welfare problems. Individual
chapters describe welfare issues relevant to the use of different animal species
in agriculture. |
|
|
Fettered Kingdoms |
Bryant, John |
1990. Fox Press Publishers, Winchester |
Includes a well-known indictment of pet
keeping. |
|
|
Fighting For Animals |
Coleman, Vernon |
entire text online |
|
|
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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of
the Animal Protection Movement |
Shevelow, Kathryn |
2008 |
History of man's changing attitudes towards animals |
|
|
Free the Animals: The Story of the
Animal Liberation Front |
Newkirk, Ingrid |
1992. Noble Press. |
An adventure story with loads of information about the early days of the Animal
Liberation Front and the animal rights movement in the USA. |
|
|
From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Distributed in the
U.S. |
Mann, Keith |
|
The definitive book on the ALF. |
|
|
Get Political For Animals |
Lewin, Julie E. |
|
|
|
|
God's Covenant with Animals |
Hyland, J.R. |
|
A Biblical Basis for the Humane Treatment of All Creatures |
Religion |
|
God Does Not Eat Meat |
Poletti, Arthur |
|
|
|
Happier Meals: Rethinking
the Global Meat Industry
|
Nierenberg, Danielle |
World Watch Institute |
Chapter 1 in full
Rethinking Meat |
|
|
History of the Humane Movement |
Niven, Charles D. |
1967. Johnson Publishers, London |
From antiquity to today. |
Animal Rights |
Hope's Edge
The Next Diet for a Small Planet. |
Lappe, Frances Moore and Anna |
2002 |
This updated version of the original classic provides new discoveries in this
era of genetically engineered foods, worldwide famine, and growing rates of
obesity-related health issues. |
|
|
How Nonviolence Protects the
State |
Gelderloos, Peter |
2007 |
Challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight
for a better world. |
|
Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of Mother Earth
|
Steven Best, Ph.D., Anthony J. Nocella, II |
2006. |
|
|
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In Defense of Animals |
Singer, Peter |
1985. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell Inc. |
|
|
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Inhumane Society |
Fox, Michael W. |
1990. St. Martins Press, New York |
The American Way of Exploiting Animals |
|
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In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation |
Orlans, Barbara |
1993. New York: Oxford University Press |
Analysis of the social, political, and ethical conflicts surrounding the use of
animals in scientific experiments. Rejects both extremes of the controversy and
instead argues for public policy reforms that serve to improve the welfare of
laboratory animals. |
|
|
In Your Face: From Actor to Activist |
DeRose, Chris |
1997. Duncan Publishing, Los Angeles |
Chris DeRose, founder of Last Chance for
Animals, shares his "Direct Action" experiences with us. Chris's tale is
gripping, and a punchy statement on the animal torture known as vivisection. |
|
|
Jesus Was A Vegan |
Saba |
2007. |
This book raises many interrelated important issues in life |
|
|
Judaism and Vegetarianism |
Schwartz, Richard W. |
|
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Keyguide to Information Sources in Animal Rights |
Magel, Charles R. |
AAVS |
|
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Laboratory Animal Husbandry: Ethology, Welfare and Experimental
Variables |
Fox, Michael W. |
1986. Albany. State Univ. of N.Y. Press |
A thoughtful evaluation of how to improve the lot of animals in laboratories. |
|
|
Lethal Laws: Animal Testing, Human Health and Environmental Policy |
Fano, Alix |
1998. New York. St. Martin's Press |
Scientifically solid and accessible. Great resource for animal advocates looking
to educate themselves about environmental policy and animal testing. |
|
|
Life on the line: The Heroic Story of Vicki
Moore |
Mench, Matilda |
2007. Bluecoat |
At the heart of the biography are campaigns waged against
bull-fighting, fox-hunting, rodeos, blood fiestas and hare-coursing |
Biography |
|
Lives in the Balance: The Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical
Research |
Smith, Jane and Kenneth Boyd |
1991. New York: Oxford University Press |
Describes evidence for the capacity of animals to experience
pain, distress, and anxiety; outlines strategies for weighing the benefits of
experiments against the harm caused to animals; and examines the possibilities
for using non-animal alternatives. |
|
Livin' La Vegan Loca
|
Kramer, Sarah |
2005. |
|
Diet Ethics |
|
Living Trophies: A Shocking Look at the Conditions in Americas Zoos |
Batten, Peter |
1976. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company |
|
Zoos |
|
Mad Cowboy:
Plain Truth From the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat |
Lyman, Howard F. |
1998. Scribner, New York, |
Here is a thumping good tale courtesy of Oprah's co-defendant in the case
against the beef industry. Besides being a great read, it gives loads of detail
about the dangers for all posed by the beef and dairy industries. |
|
|
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of
Animal Rights |
Torres, Bob |
2007 |
This book will give you a clear understanding as to why social
justice movements for people must take animal rights seriously. |
politics |
|
Merle's Door; Lessons from a Freethinking Dog |
Kerasote, Ted
|
2007. Harcourte
|
Weaving the story of Merle?s life and lessons with the latest
research on animal consciousness and behavior, Merle's Door shows us how dogs
might live if we gave them more freedom, no matter where we live. |
Comp-anion
Animals |
|
Morals, Reason, and Animals. |
Sapontzis, Steve F. |
1987. Philadelphia: Temple University Press |
Offers well-reasoned arguments for animal rights on the basis of
consistent extensions of current accepted moral views. Provides some of the
clearest and best discussions of vexing objectives to animal rights -- for
example, the issue of animal predation. |
|
|
More Than a Meal |
Davis, Karen |
|
The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality
More info |
Diet Ethics |
|
Naked Empress: The Great Medical Fraud |
Ruesch, Hans |
1982. London: Civis |
Why vivisection is a major cause of human disease |
|
|
Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective |
Kheel, Marti |
2007. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Explores the underlying worldview of nature ethics, offering an
alternative ecofeminist approach |
Studies in
Social, Political, & Legal Philosophy |
|
Never Cry Wolf |
Mowat, Farley |
1963 |
|
|
|
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would
Be Human |
Hess, Elizabeth |
2008. Bantam |
The story of Nim Chimpsky, who in the 1970s was the subject of an
experiment begun at the University of Oklahoma to find out whether a chimp could
learn American Sign Language?and thus refute Noam Chomsky?s influential thesis
that language is inherent only in humans. |
|
|
No Room, Save in the Heart |
Free, Ann Cottrell |
AAVS |
Poetry and Prose on Reverence for Life--Animals, Nature and Humankind |
|
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Ocean Warriors |
Watson, Paul |
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Of Mice, Models, and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Research. |
Rowan, Andrew |
1984. Albany: State University of New York Press |
Somewhat dated, this book is an evenhanded summation of the various sorts of
animal research and the history of controversy surrounding them. |
|
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Peace to All Beings |
Carman, Judy |
|
Veggie Soup for the Chicken?s Soul |
Religion |
|
Pet Loss |
Harris, Julia |
|
A spiritual guide. |
Comp-anion Animals |
|
Pleasurable Kingdom:
Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good |
Balcombe, Jonathan |
|
review |
|
|
Penelope, A Puppy Mill Dog |
Veilleux, Gisele |
2007 |
This delightful and educational story, about a boy and his dog,
will entertain and educate readers of all ages. The book gently introduces the
abuses of the Puppy Mill Industry. |
|
|
Planet Chicken |
Ellis, Hattie |
2007 |
Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the Bird on Your Plate |
Factory
Farming |
|
Political Theory and Animal Rights |
Clarke and Lindzey (Eds.) |
1990. |
This book provides interesting excepts from thinkers since Plato to Regan on the
issue of our relations and duties towards animals. |
|
|
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs |
Davis, Karen |
2009 |
A well-documented indictment of the poultry industry |
Factory
Farming |
|
Pulling the Wool |
Townend, Christine |
1985. Hale and Ironmonger Publishers, Sydney, Australia |
The Australian wool and sheep industry |
|
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Radical Vegetarianism |
Braunstein,
Mark |
1983. Panjandrum Books, Los Angeles |
|
Diet Ethics |
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Rain Without Thunder |
Francione, Gary L. |
1996. Philadelphia. Temple University Press |
The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement |
Animal Rights |
|
Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence against Animals and the Earth |
Collard, Andree with Contruccu, Joyce |
1989. |
|
Philo-sophy |
|
Rattling the Cage |
Wise, Steven M. |
2000. Perseus books. |
Explores the similarities between Chimps, Bonobos, and humans. He
discusses the artificial legal wall which separates us from all other animals.
He argues that granting the rights of bodily liberty and bodily integrity to
other Great Apes is the obvious place to begin breaking down that wall. |
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Reason For Hope
|
Goodall, Jane |
1999. Warner Books |
An inspiring book, of her work with the chimpanzees of Gombe, and her work in
the rest of the world, on their behalf. |
|
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Reckoning with the Beast |
Turner, James |
1980. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press |
A discussion of the rise of concern for the humane treatment of
animals during the Victorian Period. |
|
|
Redemption |
Winograd, Nathan J. |
2007 |
No-kill Animal Shelters |
|
|
Regarding Animals |
Arluke, Arnold and Clinton Sanders |
1996. Philadelphia. Temple University
Press |
Combining sociological analysis with
personal experience, two sociologists offer fascinating insights into the
history and practice of how we construct animals and how we ultimately construct
ourselves in relation to them. Chronicles the experiences of shelter and
research lab workers and reveals the complex strategies used to cope with the
emotional traumas of the job. |
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Sacred Cows and Golden Geese:
The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals |
Greek, Ray, MD. & Jean Swingle, DVM |
2000. Continuum Pub Group |
The Greeks argue beautifully against vivisection on the grounds of bad science -
the harm to humans that comes from investing in animal experimentation. |
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Save the Animals! 101 Easy Things You Can Do |
Newkirk, Ingrid |
1990. New York. Warner |
Practical guides to making a difference for animals in everyday
life. |
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Science and the Search for God |
Kowalski, Gary |
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Religion |
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Science on Trial: The Human Cost of Animal Experimentation |
Sharpe, Robert |
1994. Sheffield: Awareness Publishing, Ltd. |
A powerful body of evidence documenting the failures, misleading
results and missed opportunities of animal research, citing over a hundred
examples. |
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Seal Wars |
Watson, Paul |
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Sistah Vegan! Food, Health,
Identity, and Society |
Harper, Amie |
2007, Fall. Sugar Cane Press |
It's an anthology of black females who practice veganism. |
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Skinny Bitch - A Diet Book With Attitude |
Freedman, Rory & Kim Barnouin |
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Entertaining Diet book with veganism as a theme |
Diet Book |
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Slaughterhouse: The
Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat
Industry |
Eisnitz, Gail |
1997. New York.
prometheus books
flier: Slaughter-house |
Shows the disturbing indifference displayed by the meat industry toward animal
suffering, toward exploitation of its human workers, and to diseases in meat.
Excerpts
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Factory Farming |
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Slaughter of the Innocent |
Ruesch, Hans |
1983. New York: Bantam Books |
An impassioned attack on vivisection, relentlessly describes the agonies endured
by animals in research and charges vivisectors with scientific fraud, malice,
and madness. The depictions of animal suffering are haunting, but the analysis
of the motives of scientists is fairly incredible. |
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Speaking Out for Animals |
Stallwood, Kim W. (ed) Fwd Jane Goodall |
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True Stories about Real People Who Rescue Animals |
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Speciesism |
Dunayer,
Joan |
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Speciesism -- Review
Speciesism --
Review
Speciesism Review
-- by Dr. Steve Best
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Animal Rights |
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Specious Science |
Greek, Ray, MD. & Jean Swingle, DVM |
2002. Continuum Pub Group |
How Genetics And Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research On Animals Harms Humans
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Stories Rabbits Tell |
Davis, Susan E. & DeMello, Margo |
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A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature |
Pets |
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Strolling with Our Kin |
Bekoff, Mark and Goodall, Jane |
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Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animals |
Religion |
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Taking Stock: Animal Farming and The Environment |
Durning, Alan & Brough, Holy |
1991. WorldWatch Institute, Wash. DC |
The environmental cost of animal farming. |
Factory Farming |
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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?Reflections on the Liberation of Animals |
Steven Best, Ph.D., Anthony J. Nocella, II |
2004.
Lantern |
The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics
and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. This is a provocative book that
challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture.
Terrorists? -- review
Terrorists?
-- review
Terrorists --
Review by Karen Davis, PhD.
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Philo-sophy |
Thanking the Monkey
Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals |
Dawn, Karen |
2008. Harper |
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The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy |
Fox, Stephen |
1981. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press |
Chronicles the beginnings of the environmental movement in the U.S. through the
actions and legacy of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. |
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The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age |
Ritvo, Harriet |
1987. Cambridge, Harvard University Press |
Deftly written and generously illustrated, this book details the spectrum of
Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of
zoology, the hunt, a rabies panic, and more. |
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The American Hunting Myth |
Baker, Ron |
1985. New York. Vantage Press |
Details how hunter-dominated state and
federal wildlife agencies are systematically destroying America's wildlife and
natural lands. Explodes the myth that hunters are responsible for subsidizing
parks and wilderness by showing that taxpayers are instead footing the bill for
the special interests of hunters. |
Hunting |
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The Animals' Agenda Directory of Organizations |
Stallwood, Kim W. |
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In conjunction with Animal Rights Network |
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That's Why We Don't Eat Animals |
Roth, Ruby |
2009. North Atlantic Books |
Uses colorful artwork and lively text to introduce vegetarianism
and veganism to early readers (ages 6-10) |
veganism |
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The Animal Welfare Handbook |
Clough, C. and Kew, B. |
1993. 4th Estate, London, UK |
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Shopping |
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The Animal-Free Shopper |
Farhall, R., Lucas, R., & A. Rofe A. (Eds.) |
1991. The Vegan Society, East Sussex |
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Shopping |
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The Animal Liberation Movement: Its Philosophy, Its Achievements
and Its Future |
Singer, Peter |
1986. Old Hammond Press Publishers, Nottingham |
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The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest |
Jasper, James and Dorothy Nelkin |
1992. New York: The Free Press |
A chronicle and analysis of the modem animal rights movement, its issues and
strategies, written by sociologists. |
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The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect |
Finsen, Lawrence & Finsen, Susan |
1994. New York. Twain Publishers |
This scholarly yet eminently readable book uniquely melds the historical and the
contemporary, the empirical and the conceptual, advocacy and objectivity, to
provide an unequaled overview of the theory and practice of social ethical
concern for animals. |
Animal Rights |
The Ark & the Covenant: Living in Godly
Relationship
|
Farington, Debra |
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The Bible According to Noah |
Kowalski, Gary |
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Theology as If Animals Mattered |
Religion |
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The Bloodless Revolution |
Stuart, Tristram |
2007. Norton |
A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times |
History |
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The Case for Animal Rights. |
Regan, Tom |
1983. Berkeley: University of California Press, |
A rigorous and thorough defense of rights of animals. Essential
reading for anyone serious about the philosophical foundations of the notion of
animal rights. The first part takes an extended look at the nature of animal
minds. The second half develops a theory of the value of animal lives and
carefully worked out applications of the theory to the issues of vegetarianism,
vivisection, hunting, and so forth. |
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The Cruel Deception: The Use of Animals in Medical Research |
Sharpe, Robert |
1989. Thorsons Publishers, UK |
Detailed study of the barbarity and uselessness of vivisection. |
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The Diary of Michelle Rokke |
Rokke, Michelle |
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Undercover Activist |
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The Dominion of Love |
Phelps, Norm |
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Animal Rights According to the Bible |
Religion |
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The Dreaded Comparison: Human and
Animal Slavery |
Spiegel, Marjorie. |
1996. Mirror Books |
Powerfully illustrates the similarities between the enslavement
of blacks and the enslavement of animals. As Alice Walker, who supplies the
preface, says, "The book can be read in an hour but will take a lifetime to
forget." |
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The Extended Circle: A Commonplace Book of Animal Rights |
Wynne-Tyson, Jon |
1989. New York: Paragon House |
A collection of contemporary writings of thinkers who have argued
for a holistic compassion that extends to all living things. An invaluable
reference for animal advocates. |
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The Face On Your Plate |
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff
|
2009. |
Implores readers to consider and re-imagine how what they eat
affects not just their own health but also the health of the Earth |
|
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The Feminist Care Tradition in
Animal Ethics |
Donovan, Josephine & Adams, Carol J.,
editors
|
2008 |
A compelling examination of the workings of power, prejudice, and
ideology. |
|
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The Food Revolution: How your Diet Can
Help Save Your Life and The World |
Robbins, John |
2001. Conari Press, California |
An update on Diet for a New America. It presents an easy to read and convincing
argument on behalf of a plant based diet, for the sake of our health and the
health of this planet. |
Diet Ethics |
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The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering
of Animals. |
Rollin, Bernard |
1995. New York: Cambridge University Press |
A philosophically sophisticated and scientifically well-informed
discussion of the moral and social issues raised by genetically engineered
animals, a powerful technology that has major implications for society. |
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The Great Compassion |
Phelps, Norm |
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Buddhism and Animal Rights |
Religion |
The Holocaust & the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities
|
Davis, Karen |
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The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice |
Orlans, Barbara, Tom Beauchamp, Rebecca Dresser, David Morton, and
John Gluck |
1997. New York: Oxford University Press |
A look at the wide range of animal uses by humans. The authors discuss animal
use from various perspectives, including the users', animal welfare and rights
advocates', and the animal's. |
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The Last Great Wild Beast Show |
Jordon, Bill and Ormond, Stefan |
1978. Constable Publishers, London. |
How animals are snatched from the wild to be shipped to zoos worldwide. |
Zoos |
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The Lifelong Activist |
Rettig, Hillary |
2006 |
Gives insightful tips on organizing your activist lifestyle.
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activism |
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The Lives of Animals |
Coetzee, J.M. |
1999. Princeton University Press |
Two lessons on animal rights, delivered by the fictional
character Elizabeth Costello, are included in Coetzee's latest work above. This
book also includes responses to those lessons. |
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The Longest Struggle: Animal
Advocacy |
Phelps, Norm |
Lantern Books, 2007 |
tells the story of animal exploitation and the battle for animal
justice |
AR History |
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The Lost Religion of Jesus |
Akers, Keith |
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Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity |
Christ-ianity, veget-arianism |
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The Monkey Wars |
Blum, Deborah |
1994. Oxford University Press |
Deborah Blum won a Pulitzer for the series of articles which
inspired this book. It explores the politics of monkey use and abuse looking at
the issues from "both sides." It reads like a gripping novel. |
Animal Testing |
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The Moral Status of Animals |
Clark, Stephen |
1977. Oxford University Press Publishers, Oxford |
The roots of humans' treatment of animals in sentimental fantasy |
Philo-sophy |
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The Nature of the Beast: Are Animals Moral? |
Clark, Stephen |
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Philo-sophy |
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The
Emotional World of Farm Animals |
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff |
2003. Ballantine |
Masson intersperses heartwarming vignettes from the lives of various types of
farmed animals, with some gruesome information on the way those animals
generally live and die in our society. |
|
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The Pornography of
Meat |
Adams, Carol |
2003. Continuum |
Review
Adams argues that both the eating of meat and the enjoyment of
pornography rely on the ability to see someone as something, and to divide
the individual into consumable parts. The short book is thought-provoking. |
Philo-sophy |
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The Power of Your Plate |
Barnard, Neal |
1990. Summertown, TN. Book Publishing
Company |
Lets leaders in research tell of their
findings on the effects of consuming animal products on human health. Leading
experts, such as Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Richard Leakey, discuss how
eating habits have evolved and determine our chances for a long and
healthy life. |
Diet Ethics |
|
The REAL Forbidden Fruit:
How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back |
Popick, Jeff |
2007 |
Offers compelling and, ironically, logical evidence that meat was the real
"forbidden fruit." |
Religion |
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The Rights of Nature: The History of Environmental Ethics |
Nash, Roderick |
1989. Madison University of Wisconsin Pres |
Charts the history of contemporary philosophical and religious
beliefs regarding nature, focusing primarily on changing attitudes toward nature
in the U.S. The first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has
rights. |
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The Rose-Tinted Menagerie |
Johnson, William |
PETA (op. cit.) |
Describes behind-the-scenes action in circuses, aquariums, and zoos |
Circuses, Zoos |
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The Savour of Salt--A Henry Salt Anthology |
Hendrick, Goerge & Willene (eds) |
1989. Centaur Press Publishers, Fontwell |
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian
Critical Theory. |
Adams, Carol |
1990. New York. Continuum |
A fascinating historical and current
analysis of the relationship between feminism and meat eating; maintains that
the images and attitudes toward women and animals are importantly related. |
Philo-sophy |
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The Struggle for Animal Rights. |
Regan, Tom |
1987. Clarks Summit, PA: International Society for Animal Rights |
In part an autobiography, also contains discussions of some
important and sometimes neglected issues, such as the role of culture in the
struggle for animal rights, the challenge of religion, and civil disobedience. |
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The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Pain, and Science. |
Rollin, Bernard |
1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press |
Scientists have, until recently, denied that animals feel pain and suffer.
The history of this denial, its adverse effects on science, and the extensive
evidence for the commonsense view that animals do feel pain are the focus of
this book. |
|
The Vision of Eden: Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism in Jewish Law and Mysticism" and
"Man and Beast: Torah Perspectives And Laws Concerning Man's Relationship With
The Animal Kingdom"
|
Sears, David |
|
Two reviews |
Religion |
|
The Way of Compassion Survival Strategies for a World in
Crisis |
Rowe, Martin, (ed.) |
1999. New York: Stealth Technologies |
Collection of the inspiring, thoughtful and practical wisdom of contemporary
thinkers and activists from all walks of life, working to maintain sustainable
lifestyles and practice non-violence in all its forms. |
Veget-arianism,
Environ-mentalism, Animal Advocacy, and Social Justice |
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter.
|
Singer, Peter and Jim Mason |
2006. |
Excerpt from "The Way We
Eat" |
|
|
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story |
Ackerman, Diane |
2007, W.W. Norton |
The book is based on historical fact, with events at the Warsaw
Zoo in 1935 |
Activism |
|
Thinking with Animals: New
Perspectives on Anthropo-morphism |
Daston, Lorranine & Mitman, Gregg eds. |
2005.
New York: Columbia University Press |
Contemplating Animals and Selves |
Science |
|
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from
the Nightmare of Zoos |
Jensen, Derrick |
2008
no voice unheard .org |
Critiques one of America?s most unquestioned institutions: zoos. |
zoos |
|
Up against the Law |
Roberts, J.J. |
1987. Arc Print, London |
1986 Public Order Act and its implications for Animal Rights protests. |
Law |
|
Unhappy Meals |
Pollan, Michael |
2007. |
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. |
Diet |
|
Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating |
Marcus, Erik |
1997 |
This is an easy to read look into the health, ethical, & environmental
advantages of veganism. Research for the book, was funded by the late, great,
Henry Spira. |
|
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Vegetarian Cats and Dogs. |
Reibow, Verona and Dune, Jonathan. |
1995. Harbingers of a New Age. Troy, Montana |
All the information you need on feeding your companions a vegetarian diet.
Publishers can be contacted at vegepet@aol.com |
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Victims of Science: The Use of Animals in Research. |
Ryder, Richard |
1975, revised in 1983. London: Davis-Poynter |
A study of the use of research animals in Britain, including statistics, types
of research, life in the laboratory, British legislation, and the histories of
vivisection and compassion. |
|
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Vivisection and Dissection in the Classroom |
Francione, Gary L. & Charlton, Anna E. |
1992. Jenkintown. American Anti-Viv. Society |
A Guide to Conscientious Objection. Legal citings, sample pleadings, and
letters. |
Animal Testing |
|
Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching |
Jacobs, Lynn |
P.O. Box 5784, Tucson, AZ 85703 |
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When
Elephants Weep |
McCarthy, Susan and Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff |
1996. Delta |
An easy to read book that presents evidence for and a discussion of the complex
emotional lives of non-human animals. |
|
|
Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal
Protection |
Williams, Erin E. & DeMello, Margo |
2007, Prometheus |
Statistics, news reports, anecdotes, and observations
exposing the sufferings of many creatures in many industries |
|
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Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics. |
Mighetto, Lisa |
1991 Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
|
Illustrates how the debate of the ethics of wildlife protection evolved into the
animal rights activism of today, describing how animal lovers gradually came to
advocate protection even of predators, which led to the development of modern
ecological values and the biocentric perspective. |
|
|
Without
a Tear: Our Tragic Relationship With
Animals |
Bernstein, Mark H. |
|
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|
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You Can Save the Animals |
Newkirk, Ingrid |
1999. California, Prima Publishing |
A thoughtful look at animal suffering and what we can do to help. |
|
|
1000 Doctors (And Many More) Against Vivisection |
Ruesch, Hans |
1989. London: Civis |
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Nierenberg, Danielle |
World Watch Institute |
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