Indefensible : adventures of a farm animal protection lawyer / Peter Brandt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Peter (Lawyer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cause lawyers--United States--Biography.

Cause lawyers.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

Animal industry--Law and legislation--United States.

Animal industry.

Animal welfare--Law and legislation--United States.

Animal welfare.

Place of Publication:

Lantern Publishing & Media

Summary:

"Peter Brandt, a litigator at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has been at the forefront of some of the toughest cases of animal abuse in the last ten years-including supervising a team of lawyers working to protect the interests of farm animals. In this revelatory and often surprisingly funny memoir-cum-manifesto, Brandt describes his growing awareness of the extent of the cruelty of animals in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (a.k.a. factory farms), and the manifold harms to human health, local communities, and the environment for those who live near them. He shows how it's a world of enormous suffering, sustained by deliberate secrecy and misinformation, and reeking of corruption and lagoons full of ordure. Brandt details his realization of intensive animal farming's further costs to wild creatures and their habitats, as well as clean water and clean air, and demonstrates how curbing animal agriculture is one of the few ways to make an immediate positive difference to climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Diet and the upper and lower primates

Having a life span is not the same as having a life

Rich, not famous, and pushing drugs

In the end the coyote wins

Reaping drought by design

If you mostly make crap, everywhere looks like your toilet

Hurricane husbandry

A convoy 150 years long

Rendered insensible in the end.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-59056-630-0