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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement

10 best books like For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement (Kathryn Shevelow): Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect, The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals, Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional and Social Capacities, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?

Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
AuthorBob Torres
ISBN1904859674
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...
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
AuthorWayne Pacelle
ISBN0061969788
The president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, the world’s largest animal protection organization, Wayne Pacelle brings us The Bond, a heartfelt, eye-opening exploration of the special bond between animals and humans. With the poignant insight of Animals Make Us Human and the...
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
AuthorKaren Dawn
ISBN0061351857
The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick's dog fighting scandal to the incredible success of the bestselling Skinny Bitch veggie diet...
Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
AuthorMarc Bekoff
ISBN1590305221
Nonhuman animals have many of the same feelings we do. They get hurt, they suffer, they are happy, and they take care of each other. Marc Bekoff, a renowned biologist specializing in animal minds and emotions, guides readers from high school age up—including older adults who want a basic introduction...
The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals
AuthorJenny Brown
ISBN1583334416
Temple Grandin meets Michael Pollan in a poignant, provocative memoir of survival, compassion, and awakening to the reality of our food system.

Jenny Brown was just ten years old when she lost a leg to bone cancer. Throughout the ordeal, her constant companion was a cat named Boogie. Years...
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
AuthorTom Regan
ISBN0742549933
Described by Jeffrey Masson as 'the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, ' this new book by Tom Regan will structure the animal rights debate for generations to come. In a style at once simple and elegant, Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by...
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
AuthorGene Baur
ISBN0743291581
Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within...
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
AuthorJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
ISBN0345452828
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling,...
The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional and Social Capacities
AuthorAmy Hatkoff
ISBN1584797487
Chickens can count. Pigs are smarter than poodles. Cows form close friendships. Turkeys know one another by their voices, and sheep recognize faces—of other sheep, and of people. Far from lacking thoughts and feelings, barnyard creatures demonstrate sophisticated problem-solving abilities,...
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
AuthorGary L. Francione
ISBN1566396921
Well, I guess have to give this book 5 stars because the information and philosophy contained in the book is so worthy and is an important addition to the subject of animal rights.

I almost didn’t give it 5 stars though because:

It was a bit of a slog to read, which is a shame because the...
The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World
AuthorMatt Ball
ISBN1590561201
Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich take the plight of the world's animals seriously and have dedicated their lives to ending their suffering. The Animal Activist's Handbook argues that meaning in life is to be found, quite simply, in turning away from the futile pursuit of "more," and focusing instead on...
One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
AuthorDiane Leigh
ISBN0972838708
"People sometimes ask, in light of the devastating and important issues that face us in our modern times, why the homeless animal issue is important, why we should be concerned about it...The homeless animal problem is a reflection of a society that has lost touch with other living beings, with the natural...
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
AuthorTristram Stuart
ISBN0393052206
The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories...
Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals
AuthorRory Freedman
ISBN0762449543
Rory Freedman, co-author of the #1 New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, returns with a call-to-arms to all animal lovers.

So many of us call ourselves animal lovers and worship our dogs and cats—but we could be using that love as a force for helping all animals. Beg is a battle cry on their...
An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying The Planet and Each Other
AuthorJim Mason
ISBN1590560817
"An eloquent, important plea for a total rethinking of our relationship to the animal world. Mason analyzes the West's 'dominionist' worldview, which exalts humans as overlords and owners of other life.... His powerfully argued manifesto will change many readers' attitudes toward hamburgers,...
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
AuthorJonathan Balcombe
ISBN1403986029
Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes,...
Gristle: from Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)
AuthorMoby
GRISTLE FROM FACTORY FARMS TO FOOD SAFETY (Thinking Twice About The Meat We Eat) THINK TWICE! An information-packed, lively, and informative little guide, Gristle is for the growing number of people - from meat-eaters to vegetarians - who are thinking twice about the perils of our system of animal...
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
AuthorMarjorie Spiegel
ISBN0962449334
Spiegel, executive director of the Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness, has revised her 1989 book to present an in-depth exploration of the similarities between the violence humans have wrought against other humans and our culture's treatment of animals. Using considerable scholarship,...
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN1405119411
Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.

Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international...
Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
AuthorMark Hawthorne
ISBN1846940915
This is a really good book and I am grateful that Mark Hawthorne has written it. It is such a useful tool for anyone who wants to help animals. Each chapter thoroughly covers a different form of activism such as letterwriting, leafleting and protesting, and goes over the what, how, where, when and why for...
Free the Animals
AuthorIngrid Newkirk
ISBN1930051220
This is the true story of how the animal liberation underground started in the US. Every character - including each of the wonderful animals you will come to know - is real flesh and blood. Because the federal government retains an abiding interest in locking up anyone involved in illegally removing...
Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned
AuthorCathy Scott
ISBN0470228512
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to...
The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry Social Conventions Mental Habits Moral Fiber Canis fami
AuthorStephen Budiansky
I really didn't enjoy this book at all. Which is a surprise, since I adore to read about dogs. But this book didn't offer any new information (other than offering an explanation for why my dog peed around Mary D.- because she's so tall!); what was the most upsetting was that the author didn't actually seem...
Redemption: The Myth Of Pet Overpopulation And The No Kill Revolution In America
AuthorNathan J. Winograd
ISBN0979074304
This book was ridiculous. This is a book to make the public feel better by blaming someone else. His entire premise was that shelter workers want to kill animals. Don't feel bad about getting rid of your pet, it's not your fault if he has to be put down, it's those unscrupulous shelter workers! Working in...
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