Reading List

Animal Rights

Clean, Green, and Cruelty Free?
The true story of animals in New Zealand

Aotearoa New Zealand is often promoted as a peaceful land of blue skies, pure streams, and rich pastures - a "clean and green" paradise. In reality, our society is based on the sounds, smells and blood of the slaughterhouse. Every year New Zealanders kill over a hundred million animals for food or profit. Over two million battery chickens are crowded into tiny, stinking cages, and thousands of pregnant sows endure boredom and frustration in cramped dark stalls. Animals suffer for our amusement in circuses, zoos, racetracks and rodeos, or are bred and hunted for sport. Hundreds of thousands of animals endure pain in laboratory experiments every year, while many more are trapped, shot, or poisoned because they have been defined as pests.

Clean, green and cruelty-free? explodes the myth of New Zealand as a pristine and animal-friendly environment. Designed as a resource for animal advocates, it will be of interest to anyone concerned about animal suffering.

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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
Author: Erik Marcus

Both an examination of the meat industry and animal agriculture, and an extended theoretical and practical discussion on how best to dismantle the beast. A vital and illuminating contribution to the debate.

Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism And The Defense Of Animals
Author: Carol J Adams

More essays exploring the hidden relationship between the eating of meat, and the exploitation of women. Among the topics discussed are animal experimentation and patriarchal culture, abortion and animal rights, racism, eco-feminism, and the interconnected abuse of women, children, and animals. If you can get past the odd lapse into God, this is essential, and provocative reading.

Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections On The Liberation Of Animals
Authors: Ward Churchill (Introduction by), Anthony J. Nocella (Editor), and Steven Best (Editor)

The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics, and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. Featuring both academic and activist perspectives, it offers powerful insights into this international movement and its role in the struggle for animal rights. And its unabashedly in favor of the role of the ALF, and ELF, and their history of civil disobedience and sabotage.

A long list of heavy hitters contribute, including UK ALF Press Officer Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd, Karen Davis, PETA's Bruce Friedrich, and a host of others.

Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
Author: Bob Torres

Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and-once they stop laughing-you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts-and-bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry-and on the dinner plate.

http://www.makingakillingbook.com/