Confronting Animal Exploitation

Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of "street level" activists--not academics, journalists or vegan chefs--are rarely heard.This volume broadens animal liberation dialogues by offering the arguments, challenges, inspiration and narratives of grassroots activists. The essays show what animal advocacy looks like from a collective of individuals living in and around Minnesota's Twin Cities; the essayists, however, write of issues, both personal and political, that resound on a global scale. This collection provides a platform for rank and file activists to explain why and how they dedicate their time and what is being done for animals on a local level that can translate to global efforts to end animal exploitation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786465750

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Kim Socha is an animal liberation advocate who sits on the boards of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the Animal Rights Coalition. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sarahjane Blum, co-founder of gourmetcruelty.com and board member of Support Vegans in the Prison System and New York City’s Empty Cages Collective, lives in New York.

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“Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists”—Reference & Research Book News.

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface deleteSarahjane BlumIntroduction: Hallway Conversations on Animal Liberation and Veganism deleteKim SochaSection I. Theory for PraxisTurning Our Heads: The “See No Evil” Dilemma deleteDallas RisingAnti-Capitalism and Abolitionism deleteTravis Elise“Just tell the truth”: A Polemic on the Value of Radical Activism deleteKim SochaLiterary Analysis for Animal Liberation: Stephen King’s Animal Kingdom deletePatrick McAleerSection II. Veganism in ActionVegan Parenting: Navigating and Negating Speciesist Media deleteAl NowatzkiOn Cheese, Motherhood and Everyday Activism Chelsea Youngquist HasslerTill Vegan Do Us Part? Personal Change, Interpersonal Relationships and Divorce deleteElizabeth CookSection III. Narratives of ChangeIntroducing Speciesism to the Rescue Community deleteMelissa E. MaaskeTales of an Animal Liberationist deleteDallas RisingAn Oral History of the Animal Rights Coalition: Thirty Years of Grassroots Activism deleteMary Britton Clouse, Charlotte Cozzetto, deleteHeidi Greger and Vonnie ThomasbergSection IV. Moving Toward RevolutionKilling Them Softly: Marketing a Movement, Marketing Meat M. Ryan LeitchHow “Humane” Labels Harm Chickens: Why Our Focus as Advocates Should Be Egg-Free Diets, Not Cage-Free Eggs Melissa SwansonThe “Dreaded Comparisons” and Speciesism: Leveling the Hierarchy of Suffering deleteKim SochaAnimal Enterprise Acts and the Prosecution of the “SHAC 7”: An Insider’s Perspective deleteAaron ZellhoeferSome Things Get Better, Some Get Worse: On Being Scared, Being Around, and Trying to Be Kind deleteSarahjane BlumAfterword: Flower Power deletepattrice jonesAbout the ContributorsIndex