My Gentle Barn
My Gentle Barn By Ellie Laks Founder Ellie Laks tells the story of how she started the Gentle Barn, after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred...
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals addresses the moral dimensions of why we love some animals and not others. Foer explores the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them...
Animal Liberation, The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
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
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
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
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
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
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 He Felt Their Pain
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
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...
