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  Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World

  by Bob Torres

  Curious about veganism? Want to be a vegan? Already a vegan? Just wondering how to be vegan without going insane? In this informative and practical guide on veganism, team Torres helps you love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive lists of resources that no vegan should live without, this book is key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly... (more)
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  The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

  by John Robbins

  Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world, try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in droves due to genetically-engineered... (more)
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  Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees

  by Jane Goodall, Roger Fouts

  For 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about... (more)
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  Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money

  by Erik Marcus

  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... (more)
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  Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights

  by Bob Torres

  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... (more)
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  When Elephants Weep : The Emotional Lives of Animals (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

  by J. Moussaieff Masson

  A study of the complex emotional lives of animals provides fascinating insights into and anecdotes about the existence of animal emotion and offers a compelling analysis of the ways in which humans treat animals. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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  Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (Plume)

  by Jeremy Rifkin

  An analysis of the beef culture incorporates anthropology, history, sociology, economics, and ecology to demonstrate how ""cattle culture"" has changed our world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
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  Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights

  by Steven M. Wise

  A scientific and legal exploration into the big question in rights law today: Where do we draw the line? One of those rare books that can change the reader's view of our position in the world and within the animal kingdom, Drawing the Line is a landmark both in its scientific insight and in its challenge to the law. As Steven Wise continues his exploration of animal cognition along the evolutionary... (more)
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  Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism

  by Richard D. Ryder

  When Richard Ryder coined the term 'speciesism' over two decades ago, the issue of animal rights was very much a minority concern that had associations with crankiness. Today, the animal rights movement is well-established across the globe and continues to gain momentum, with animal experimentation for medical research high on the agenda and very much in the news. This pioneering book — an historical survey of the... (more)
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  The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect (Social Movements Past and Present)

  by Lawrence Finsen

  The authors, both philosophers and activists, document the evolution of what has consistently been a controversial, sometimes explosive social movement. While the Finsens trace the movement's beginnings back to the late 19th century, they focus largely on the nearly two decades following the 1975 publication of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation. In clear and thorough fashion, they discuss moral concerns that have... (more)
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  Speciesism

  by Joan Dunayer

  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... (more)
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  Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations

  Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it demonstrates that such... (more)
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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... (more)
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  May All Be Fed: 'a Diet For A New World : Including Recipes By Jia Patton And Friends

  by John Robbins

  The author of Diet for a New America shows how we can significantly improve ourselves and the world by changing the way we eat. May All Be Fed explains why so few have so much to eat and why so many have so little, and it shows how everyone can make a difference by altering food choices. 8 charts.