Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
8 best books like Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (Bob Torres): Eating Animals, Animal Liberation, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying The Planet and Each Other
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
| Author | Peter Singer |
| ISBN | 0060011572 |
The Book That Started A Revolution
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
| Author | Melanie Joy |
| ISBN | 1573244619 |
This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.
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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
| Author | Charles Patterson |
| ISBN | 1930051999 |
The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust. ETERNAL TREBLINKA describes disturbing parallels...
| Author | Gene Baur |
| ISBN | 0743291581 |
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...
| Author | Gary L. Francione |
| ISBN | 1566396921 |
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...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying The Planet and Each Other
| Author | Jim Mason |
| ISBN | 1590560817 |
"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,...
