Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection
Author:   Erin E. Williams ,  Margo Demello
Publisher:   Prometheus Books
ISBN:  

9781591025238


Pages:   397
Publication Date:   05 August 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection


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Author:   Erin E. Williams ,  Margo Demello
Publisher:   Prometheus Books
Imprint:   Prometheus Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781591025238


ISBN 10:   1591025230
Pages:   397
Publication Date:   05 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Why Care About Protecting Animals?; The Meat Industry: Animals as Food; Hunting: Animals as Game and Pests; The Fur and Skins Industries: Animals as Clothing; The Animal Experimentation Industry: Animals as Tools; The Pet Industry: Animals as Family; The Entertainment Industry: Animals as Amusement; Conclusion: A New Relationship with Animals.

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...presents well documented, full treatments of other ways our capitalistic society subjugates and abuses animals. --Media Mouse, July 3, 2008 Why Animals Matter vividly demonstrates how Western culture often measures their relationships with animals in profits and pennies. In closing, this books was found to provide readers with opportunities to explore how they know and value their relationships with animals, humans, and the natural world in its completeness. -- Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2009


Author Information

Erin E. Williams (Silver Spring, MD) works for the Humane Society of the United States. Margo DeMello (Placitas, NM) is a lecturer at Central New Mexico Community College, administrative director of the House Rabbit Society, and the author of Bodies of Adornment, Bodies of Inscription, Low-Carb Vegetarian, and Stories Rabbits Tell.

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