Animal Activism

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past. Though increasing numbers of...

Corporate greed and politics drive lawmakers to suppress the constitutional rights of animal rights activists. Dara Lovitz offers in-depth analysis of the pertinent legislative history as well as legal cases against these activists. The United States government and its legislators have spent an inordinate amount of energy, time and money, enacting laws whose sole purpose is to disenfranchise, silence, and weaken the animal rights movement.

Make the world a better place for animals! This book is full of ideas and projects listeners can put into action to help animals.

Animal rights. Diane Beers demonstrates how the cause has shaped and reshaped itself as it has evolved within the broader social context of the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society. For the Prevention of Cruelty tells an intriguing and important story that reveals society's often changing relationship with animals through the lens of those who struggled to shepherd the public toward a greater compassion.

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation.