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Capers In The Courtyard - Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror
by Lee Hall, Legal Director for Friends of Animals
What a clean and well-written book! A thinking person's views
of animal rights explored in depth and in its essence. Just published, the book
relays the details of events like the recent SHAC acts of violence, and the author
consistently entwines such obviously-harmful-to-our-cause pursuits into
straight logic and interesting discussion of the fallacies in such direct action reasoning. Ms. Hall ranks extremely high in clarity and insight within our
noble professions of peace.
Pleasurable Kingdom - Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good by
Dr. Jonathon Balcombe, Animal Behavior Research Scientist for the Physician's
Committee for Responsible Medicine
One can savor the reading of this book like the delayed sipping of a cognac and
coffee. This thorough small hardback lavishes the reader with many
scientifically verified facts about the nature of emotions and feelings within
huge array of species within the animal kingdom. Animals enjoy themselves. From
the tickling and memory responses of rats to the core body temperature rise in
excited fish to the extended memory and anticipation of future events in hens,
this book ceaselessly affords the reader with information proving that animals
are feeling and thinking beings, not Cartesian automatons; each one deserving of
our ethical attention and care.
Eternal Treblinka - Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by
Charles Patterson, Ph.D.
A powerful and enlightening book. I briefly met Dr. Patterson at the 'Animal
Rights 2006 Conference' in D.C. a few weeks ago and purchased his book at the
lanternbooks.com
exhibit. He writes in a flowing and easy style in this historical story of the
now-obvious, direct relationship between our nation's creation of the immense
slaughter houses leading to Henry Ford's auto assembly lines leading to Hitler's
great admiration for Ford and the overall 'efficiency' of moving and
transforming mass 'entities'. The prevalence of the new science of 'eugenics' at
the beginning of this century, spurred into the world by U.S. academics, also
caught Hitler's attention. The message in this book regarding the terrible
wrongs committed by humans to both humans and non-human animals within the
veiled framework of human 'supremacy' is a deeply important memory we must
constantly recognize.
The Dreaded Comparison - Human and Animal Slavery by Marjorie Spiegel
A small and very readable book with powerful premises and explanations of the
now-obvious comparisons between power-driven animal oppression and human
slavery. History, Hunting, Vivisection, Money and Power are a few of the fairly
brief chapters which tie together on this unfortunate subject. Photos and
drawings are well-placed. This is an ideal primer for someone entering our
awareness of the immense animal cruelty occurring daily.
End Game: Volume I: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen
Jensen applies many sound arguments to why we do not immediately end
civilization, and his conclusion as to the best way how is deftly stated in many
interesting analogies and interwoven with his personal stories of environmental
activism. He proposes no-holds-barred action to wake up to the death of our
inherent freedoms based upon our landbases which have been stripped from us
without most knowing it. He is a good writer who sees in one bright color only.