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Animal liberation : the definitive classic of the animal movement / by Singer, Peter,1946-;
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism," our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals, inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.Preface to the 2009 edition -- 1: All animals are equal: or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too -- 2: Tools for research: your taxes at work -- 3: Down on the factory farm: or what happened to your dinner when it was still an animal -- 4: Becoming a vegetarian: or how to produce less suffering and more food at a reduced cost to the environment -- 5: Man's dominion: a short history of speciesism -- 6: Speciesism today: defenses, rationalizations, and objections to animal liberation and the progress made in overcoming them.P.S. Insights, interviews & more (p. 1-32 following p. 311): Peter Singer: in his own words -- Preface to the 1975 edition -- Animal liberation at 30.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Animal welfare; Animal rights movement.; Animal rights.; Vegetarianism.;
© 2009, c1975., Harper Perennial,
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For the prevention of cruelty : the history and legacy of animal rights activism in the United States / by Beers, Diane L.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the postwar movement and the era of legislation, 1945-75 -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Animal rights movement; Animal welfare; Animal rights;
© c2006., Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
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An introduction to animals and the law / by Schaffner, Joan.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-232) and index.1. Animals and the law : the basics -- Introduction -- What is animal law? -- The "animals" -- The "law" -- Legal systems -- Sources of law -- Legal rules and legal rights -- Animals as things owned as property -- Moving on from the basics --2. Anti-cruelty laws -- State statutes -- The basic elements -- The link -- A progressive anti-cruelty law: Puerto Rico -- Common law: interpreting and applying anti-cruelty statutes -- Targeting animal fighting -- When animal-cruelty statutes arguably infringe defendants' constitutional rights -- Infringing speech -- Infringing religious practices -- A case study: cruelty to animals used for food: comparing the New Jersey and Israeli approaches -- The animals: who they are and our obligations to them -- The court's role -- "Accepted agricultural practices" -- Humane versus cruel -- Lessons learned -- What about wildlife? -- Anti-cruelty versus game laws -- Hunting and trapping -- A brief comparison to Australasia -- Enforcement: public and private --3. Animal welfare laws -- Introduction: animal welfare acts -- Animals used for research -- Goals and functions -- Procedures for implementing -- Enforcement -- A case study: standing and the AWA -- Comparison to the United Kingdom -- Animals used for breeding and sold as pets -- Animals used for entertainment -- Defining "exhibitor" -- Regulating exhibitors -- The ethics of exhibiting animals -- A case study: seeking to protect Asian elephants in the Ringling Brothers' Circus -- Animals used for food -- Introduction: factory farming -- Regulating slaughter and transport -- A case study: statutory and regulatory interpretation excluding birds from the HMSA -- Some hopeful developments at the state level -- Thinking outside the batter cage -- Progressive approaches: the United Kingdom and the European Union --4. Animal control and management laws -- Domestic animals -- Controlling ownership -- Challenging animal control laws -- Legislating to save homeless companion animals -- Dangerous dog laws -- A hypothetical case study: feral cats -- Wildlife -- State game laws -- Federal conservation laws --5. Animals, the constitution and the private law -- Animals and the Constitution -- State constitutions -- Constitutions worldwide -- A case study: animal protection in the German Constitution -- Animals and private law -- Regulating interpersonal relationships -- Protecting the owner's interests -- A case study: valuing companion animals --6. The future : animals as subjects, an all-inclusive legal regime -- Welfare versus rights -- Problems for animals under current law -- Approaches for improving the law for animals -- Four approaches along the continuum -- A progressive model act -- A brief summary of the five approaches -- The future: an all-inclusive legal regime -- Some basics to create an all-inclusive legal paradigm.Throughout history, humans have raised and confined animals for food, clothing and research, trained animals for entertainment, fought animals for sport, bought and sold animals for profit, and lived with animals for companionship. The law under the umbrella of 'animal law' regulates these human uses and interactions with animals. Animal law is extremely diverse, cutting across every substantive area, jurisdictional boundary, and source of legal authority. Although most countries have enacted Animal Welfare Acts and Endangered Species Laws, the law is currently designed primarily to protect the interests of humans as owners of animals, or as users of environmental resources. The animals' inherent interests, if considered, are secondary. This text surveys the laws allegedly designed to protect animals, identifies the themes that link them, analyzes and critiques them in light of their consideration and protection of animals' interests, and explores characteristics of a future legal system that would adequately protect animals' inherent interests.
Subjects: Animal welfare; Animals; Animal rights.;
© 2011., Palgrave Macmillan,
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The animal research war / by Conn, P. Michael.; Parker, James V.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index.In the crosshairs -- War stories -- The animal rights movement past and present -- Animal rights strategies -- War casualties -- War casualties : all of us -- Yes, but what about-- -- Peace at last?
Subjects: Animal experimentation; Animal welfare; Animal rights; Animal rights movement;
© 2008., Palgrave Macmillan,
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An odyssey with animals : a veterinarian's reflections on the animal rights & welfare debate / by Morrison, Adrian R.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Searching for the boundary between animals and humans -- Victims -- "Doing" science -- Biomedical research and its animals -- Fudging the data -- The history of modern animal-rights activism -- Exploring the nature of animals -- Justifying other uses of animals -- The philosophers.The relationship between animals and humans is more complex today than ever before. In addition to the animals that have served as household pets, and the farm animals that have provided labor and food, countless monkeys, rabbits, rats, and cats have enabled modern scientists to treat and cure humanity's most devastating illnesses. This aspect of animal-human interaction has engendered a bitter enmity between animal rights activists and the biomedical researchers whose work depends on the use (and oftentimes the killing) of laboratory animals. In this work, the author, a veterinarian and sleep researcher argues that humane animal use in biomedical research is an indispensable tool of medical science, and that efforts to halt such use constitute a grave threat to human health and wellbeing. The target of repeated acts of intimidation by anonymous animal rights activists because of his own research, he is himself an animal advocate, and this volume is the culmination of his years spent negotiating the treacherous divide between a legitimate concern for animals and the importance of biomedical research. Drawing on the disciplines of philosophy, history, biology, and animal behavior, he crafts a multi-faceted argument in favor of using animals humanely in research, the center of which is his staunch belief that human interests must be the primary concern of science and society. Along the way, he delves into other human uses of animals in domains such as agriculture, hunting, and education, examining each use along with its philosophical, moral, and ecological implications. The result is a discussion of a charged subject, of the past and present of animals' relationships with humans, and how and why we should be able to use them as we do.
Subjects: Medical sciences; Biology; Laboratory animals.; Animal experimentation.; Animal welfare; Animal Experimentation; Animal Rights.; Animals, Laboratory.; Biomedical Research; Ethics, Research.;
© c2009., Oxford University Press,
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Good natured : the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals / by Waal, F. B. M. de(Frans B. M.),1948-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-279) and index.
Subjects: Ethics, Evolutionary.; Animal behavior.; Human behavior.; Ethics.;
© 1996., Harvard University Press,
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Myocardial infarction [videorecording] / by Harman, Glenn,1968-; Blanchard & Loeb Publishers.;
Enhance your patient care by deepening your understanding of myocardial infarction. See exactly what's happening inside your patient and know exactly what it means for your care.DVD.Pathophysiology ; Anteroseptal MI ; Interior wall and right ventricular MI ; Nursing care -- Pathophysiology close ups -- Animation selector -- Heart sounds.Producer/director, Glenn Harman ; clinical project manager, Colleen P. Seeber-Combs.
Subjects: Myocardial infarction.; Myocardial infarction;
© c2012., Blanchard & Loeb Publishers,
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The ultimate book of scavenger hunts : 42 outdoor adventures to conquer with your family / by Tornio, Stacy,author.; Nelson, Corissa,illustrator.;
Introduction -- Search for animals -- Check out the neighborhood -- Have a backyard adventure -- Explore the wild -- Discover nature's palette -- Take a trip -- Seasons -- Go at the right time.Tornio helps you turn every outdoor outing into a scavenger hunt. Geared toward families with kids ages 4-10, and covering a variety of locations, these lists of things to find can turn any time spent outdoors into an opportunity to engage your family on a whole new level. -- adapted from back cover
Subjects: Treasure hunt (Game); Family recreation.; Outdoor recreation.;
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Death at SeaWorld : Shamu and the dark side of killer whales in captivity / by Kirby, David,1960-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-451) and index.Pt. 1. Blackfish : Marine biologist ; Trainer ; Capture ; Santa Cruz ; Johnstone Strait ; Hotdogging ; Residents vs. transients ; OrcaLab ; Happy talk ; Mama's boys ; Breakfast at SeaWorld ; Whale for sale ; Dissertation -- Pt. 2. Dark side : Arrival ; Humane Society ; Backstage doubts ; Blood in the water ; The case against ; Free Willy ; Protection ; Kiss of death ; Catch and release ; Tilly's Willy ; Better days ; The Salish Sea ; The strange case of Daniel Dukes ; Transatlantic ties ; Abnormal activities ; Ken and Kasatka ; Tenerife ; Death at SeaWorld -- Pt. 3. After Dawn : Wake ; Battle stations ; Oversight ; Citation ; Superpod.A scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of America's most beloved marine mammal park. It centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the United States, Naomi Rose, the author tells the story of the two-decade fight against public relations-savvy SeaWorld, which came to a head with the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. The author puts that horrific attack in context: Brancheau's death was only the most publicized among several brutal attacks at marine mammal theme parks. This book introduces real people taking part in this debate, from former trainers turned animal rights activists to the men and women that champion SeaWorld and the captivity of whales. As the story progresses and orca attacks on trainers become increasingly violent, the warnings of scientists fall on deaf ears, only to be realized with the death of Dawn Brancheau. Finally the book covers the media backlash, the eyewitnesses who come forward to challenge SeaWorld's glossy image, and the groundbreaking OSHA case that challenges the very idea of keeping killer whales in captivity.
Subjects: Killer whale; Captive marine mammals; Killer whale; Animal attacks; Brancheau, Dawn, 1969-2010; Sea World.; Aquatic animal welfare; Rose, Naomi A.; Marine biologists; Humane Society of the United States.;
© 2012., St. Martin's Press,
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The hiccupotamus / by Zenz, Aaron.;
A hippopotamus with severe hiccups causes chaos until other creatures finally find the right cure.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Hiccups; Hippopotamus; Animals; Humorous stories.; Stories in rhyme; Hiccups; Hippopotamus; Animals; Humorous stories.;
© 2009., Marshall Cavendish Children,
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