Confronting Animal Exploitation
Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism
Published on 14. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-7864-6575-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists"-Reference & Research Book News.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6575-0 (9780786465750)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface deleteSarahjane Blum
Introduction: Hallway Conversations on Animal
Liberation and Veganism deleteKim Socha
Section I. Theory for Praxis
Turning Our Heads: The "See No Evil" Dilemma deleteDallas Rising
Anti-Capitalism and Abolitionism deleteTravis Elise
"Just tell the truth": A Polemic on the Value of Radical Activism deleteKim Socha
Literary Analysis for Animal Liberation: Stephen King's Animal Kingdom deletePatrick McAleer
Section II. Veganism in Action
Vegan Parenting: Navigating and Negating Speciesist Media deleteAl Nowatzki
On Cheese, Motherhood and Everyday Activism ?Chelsea Youngquist Hassler
Till Vegan Do Us Part? Personal Change, Interpersonal Relationships and Divorce deleteElizabeth Cook
Section III. Narratives of Change
Introducing Speciesism to the Rescue Community deleteMelissa E. Maaske
Tales of an Animal Liberationist deleteDallas Rising
An Oral History of the Animal Rights Coalition: Thirty Years of Grassroots Activism deleteMary Britton Clouse, Charlotte Cozzetto, deleteHeidi Greger and Vonnie Thomasberg
Section IV. Moving Toward Revolution
Killing Them Softly: Marketing a Movement, Marketing Meat?M. Ryan Leitch
How "Humane" Labels Harm Chickens: Why Our Focus as Advocates Should Be Egg-Free Diets, Not Cage-Free Eggs ?Melissa Swanson
The "Dreaded Comparisons" and Speciesism: Leveling the ?Hierarchy of Suffering deleteKim Socha
Animal Enterprise Acts and the Prosecution of the "SHAC 7": ?An Insider's Perspective deleteAaron Zellhoefer
Some Things Get Better, Some Get Worse: On Being Scared, Being Around, and Trying to Be Kind deleteSarahjane Blum
Afterword: Flower Power deletepattrice jones
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface deleteSarahjane Blum
Introduction: Hallway Conversations on Animal
Liberation and Veganism deleteKim Socha
Section I. Theory for Praxis
Turning Our Heads: The "See No Evil" Dilemma deleteDallas Rising
Anti-Capitalism and Abolitionism deleteTravis Elise
"Just tell the truth": A Polemic on the Value of Radical Activism deleteKim Socha
Literary Analysis for Animal Liberation: Stephen King's Animal Kingdom deletePatrick McAleer
Section II. Veganism in Action
Vegan Parenting: Navigating and Negating Speciesist Media deleteAl Nowatzki
On Cheese, Motherhood and Everyday Activism ?Chelsea Youngquist Hassler
Till Vegan Do Us Part? Personal Change, Interpersonal Relationships and Divorce deleteElizabeth Cook
Section III. Narratives of Change
Introducing Speciesism to the Rescue Community deleteMelissa E. Maaske
Tales of an Animal Liberationist deleteDallas Rising
An Oral History of the Animal Rights Coalition: Thirty Years of Grassroots Activism deleteMary Britton Clouse, Charlotte Cozzetto, deleteHeidi Greger and Vonnie Thomasberg
Section IV. Moving Toward Revolution
Killing Them Softly: Marketing a Movement, Marketing Meat?M. Ryan Leitch
How "Humane" Labels Harm Chickens: Why Our Focus as Advocates Should Be Egg-Free Diets, Not Cage-Free Eggs ?Melissa Swanson
The "Dreaded Comparisons" and Speciesism: Leveling the ?Hierarchy of Suffering deleteKim Socha
Animal Enterprise Acts and the Prosecution of the "SHAC 7": ?An Insider's Perspective deleteAaron Zellhoefer
Some Things Get Better, Some Get Worse: On Being Scared, Being Around, and Trying to Be Kind deleteSarahjane Blum
Afterword: Flower Power deletepattrice jones
About the Contributors
Index