Taking personal action to end all animal exploitation by not eating, wearing or using animals
Animal Liberation, The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement By Peter Singer Originally published in 1975, and reissued and updated in 2009, this book helped to inspire a worldwide movement about “speciesism” and our systematic...
When Elephants Weep – The Emotional Lives of Animals By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy This groundbreaking work explores the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. Both McCarthy and...
The Ethics of What We Eat – Why Our Food Choices Matter By Peter Singer and Jim Mason The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and...
The CAFO Reader – the Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories By Daniel Imhoff Summary: The CAFO Reader “is the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world’s leading experts....
Dominion – The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy By Matthew Scully Summary: Dominion takes the reader to the many places where animals are exploited today for human entertainment or...
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry By Gail A. Eisnitz In Slaughterhouse, Gail Eisnitz looks at the radical changes over the last 25 years of the meat-packing...
Vaslav Nijinsky said, “I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I...
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants,” says Pollan. Our industrialized Western diet has brought us cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and a multitude...
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution By John Robbins In this book, best-selling author John Robbins examines the social, economical, environmental, spiritual and physical effects of industrialized food production...
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) publishes a highly informative guide for consumers that explains what certifications and food labels are certified, which labels are unverified and have no legal definition or standards, and which...
