The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights - Catharine Grant (2006).pdf

Publication Date: 12 Oct 2006 | Series: No-nonsense Guides
You might think that the protection of animals' rights is a modern, Western concern. In fact, people all over the world and down the ages have cared what happens to animals, and not just the cute mammals. Today animals need protecting more than ever: their lives are used and abused in laboratories, zoos and hunts, and they are reared intensively on farms. And out in the wild, animals are losing their habitats to logging and oil exploration. This "No-Nonsense Guide" explains the key issues, charts the growth of the animal rights movement and looks at welfare and protection laws. And it includes a practical day to day guide to what you can do to minimise exploitation.

Review
'The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights traces the the origins of the movement, explains the ways in which animals are used and abused, and ultimately shows why animal liberation is human liberation'. Ingrid E Newkirk, founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). 'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear' The Guardian, London 'The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.' George Monbiot, journalist, campaigner and author of The Age of Consent and Captive State. 'Publishers have created lists of short books that discuss the questions that your average [electoral] candidate will only ever touch if armed with a slogan and a soundbite. Together [such books] hint at a resurgence of the grand educational tradition... Closest to the hot headline issues are The No-Nonsense Guides. These target those topics that a large army of voters care about, but that politicos evade. Arguments, figures and documents combine to prove that good journalism is far too important to be left to (most) journalists.' Boyd Tonkin,The Independent, London 'For as long as I have been writing about North-South issues - and that's longer than I care to remember - the New Internationalist has been there with pungent, pithy, probing, political analysis. Now they've had the bright idea to encapsulate some of their accumulated wisdom in the No-Nonsense Guides. You can't go wrong - I personally intend to order the whole series' Susan George, Transnational Institute, and author of The Debt Trap and Another World is Possible if...
About the Author

Catharine Grant is a writer, historian, and activist based in Toronto, Canada. She currently is completing her doctoral dissertation, which compares Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's rhetoric on religion, race, gender and sexuality. She also is involved in various campaigns for animal rights, and social and environmental justice.