A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy : the human cost of the animal rights movement / Wesley J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Wesley J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights.

Animal welfare.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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 decl

Contents:

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 Research15. Ensuring the Proper Care of Lab Animals; 16. Meat Is Not Murder; 17. Fur, Hunting, and Zoos; 18. The Importance of Being Human; Supplement; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-59403-615-2

OCLC:

798534255