Overview

As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of ""street level"" activists--not academics, journalists or vegan chefs--are rarely heard. This volume broadens animal liberation dialogues by offering the arguments, challenges, inspiration and narratives of grassroots activists. The essays show what animal advocacy looks like from a collective of individuals living in and around Minnesota's Twin Cities; the essayists, however, write of issues, both personal and political, that resound on a global scale. This collection provides a platform for rank and file activists to explain why and how they dedicate their time and what is being done for animals on a local level that can translate to global efforts to end animal exploitation.

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Author:   Kim Socha ,  Sarahjane Blum
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780786465750

ISBN 10:   0786465751
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   14 February 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface deleteSarahjane Blum Introduction: Hallway Conversations on Animal Liberation and Veganism deleteKim Socha Section I. Theory for Praxis Turning Our Heads: The “See No Evil” Dilemma deleteDallas Rising Anti-Capitalism and Abolitionism deleteTravis Elise “Just tell the truth”: A Polemic on the Value of Radical Activism deleteKim Socha Literary Analysis for Animal Liberation: Stephen King’s Animal Kingdom deletePatrick McAleer Section II. Veganism in Action Vegan Parenting: Navigating and Negating Speciesist Media deleteAl Nowatzki On Cheese, Motherhood and Everyday Activism  Chelsea Youngquist Hassler Till Vegan Do Us Part? Personal Change, Interpersonal Relationships and Divorce deleteElizabeth Cook Section III. Narratives of Change Introducing Speciesism to the Rescue Community deleteMelissa E. Maaske Tales of an Animal Liberationist deleteDallas Rising An Oral History of the Animal Rights Coalition: Thirty Years of Grassroots Activism deleteMary Britton Clouse, Charlotte Cozzetto, deleteHeidi Greger and Vonnie Thomasberg Section IV. Moving Toward Revolution Killing Them Softly: Marketing a Movement, Marketing Meat M. Ryan Leitch How “Humane” Labels Harm Chickens: Why Our Focus as Advocates Should Be Egg-Free Diets, Not Cage-Free Eggs  Melissa Swanson The “Dreaded Comparisons” and Speciesism: Leveling the  Hierarchy of Suffering deleteKim Socha Animal Enterprise Acts and the Prosecution of the “SHAC 7”:  An Insider’s Perspective deleteAaron Zellhoefer Some Things Get Better, Some Get Worse: On Being Scared, Being Around, and Trying to Be Kind deleteSarahjane Blum Afterword: Flower Power deletepattrice jones About the Contributors Index

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Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists --<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>.

"""Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists""--Reference & Research Book News."

“Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists”—Reference & Research Book News.

Offers over fifteen perspectives and testimonies by sixteen vegan activists and animal liberationists --Reference & Research Book News.

Author Information

Kim Socha is an animal liberation advocate who sits on the boards of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the Animal Rights Coalition. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sarahjane Blum, co-founder of gourmetcruelty.com and board member of Support Vegans in the Prison System and New York City’s Empty Cages Collective, lives in New York.

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