A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy : the Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.

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Author / Creator:	Smith, Wesley J.
Imprint:	New York : Encounter Books, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (335 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Animal rights. Human-animal relationships. Animal welfare. Animal rights. Animal welfare. Human-animal relationships. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137998

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ISBN:	9781594036156 1594036152 1594033463 9781594033469 9781594036149
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term "animal rights" is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal welfare, the larger movement they represent is actually advancing a radical belief system. For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral.
Other form:	Print version: Smith, Wesley J. A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy : The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. New York : Encounter Books, ©2012 9781594036149

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Dean Koontz; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; PART ONE "For the Animals"; 1. Animal Advocacy Isn't What It Used to Be; 2. "All Animals Are Equal"; 3. Animals Are People Too; 4. Let It Begin with Apes; 5. Here Comes the Judge; 6. The Silver Spring Monkey Case; 7. The Death of a Thousand Cuts; 8. Proselytizing Children; PART TWO By Any Means Necessary; 9. Advocating Terror; 10. Tertiary Targeting; 11. Praising with Faint Condemnation; 12. Murder They Wrote?; PART THREE For the People; 13. Animal Rights vs. Medical Research; 14. Our System of Animal Research.
15. Ensuring the Proper Care of Lab Animals16. Meat Is Not Murder; 17. Fur, Hunting, and Zoos; 18. The Importance of Being Human; Supplement; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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