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A plea for the animals : the moral, philosophical, and evolutionary imperative to treat all beings with compassion / Matthieu Ricard ; translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn.
LIBRA HV4708 .R5313 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ricard, Matthieu, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Plaidoyer pour les animaux. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Animal rights.
- Compassion.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Shambhala, 2016.
- Contents:
- A brief history of the relations between humans and animals
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Everybody loses: the effects of industrial breeding and meat eating on poverty, the environment and health
- The real face of industrial animal breeding
- Sorry excuses
- The continuum of life
- The mass killing of animals
- genocide versus zoocide
- A little side trip into the realm of moral judgment
- The dilemma of animal experimentation
- Illegal trade in wildlife
- Animals as objects of entertainment
- Animal rights, human obligations
- An appeal to reason and to human kindness.
- Notes:
- "Previously published in French [in 2014] as Plaidoyer pour les animaux: Vers un bienveillance pour tous."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611803051
- 1611803055
- OCLC:
- 935983685
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