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Books : Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror
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Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror by: Lee Hall List Price: £9.74 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.47 You Save: £1.27 (13%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 344 EAN: 9780976915911 ISBN: 097691591X Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: July 30, 2006 Sales Rank: 927179 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A 'Must Read' About Animal RightsA timely book, Capers is an overview of the last couple decades of animal advocacy, and examines methods and activities that have proven to be positive, questionable, or even negative towards the goals of animal rights. It questions tactics such as using threats and intimidation. It reflects deeply on various outlooks, from abolitionist and animal rights, through to husbandry reform and militant welfarists and back to veganism. It interrogates the outcome and net result of these efforts. It questions how many of these actions can actually be considered 'animal rights' and if these results are truly benefiting animals or simply playing into the very hands of the industries that exploit them. Lee Hall digs ... Read More: Rating:  - A reasonable one sided critiqueThis book successfully critiques the welfare movement for it's collusion with government and industry that abuses animals, this collusion it seems is not a valuable use of time and effort, instead it undermines the well being of animals by condemning them to marginal improvements in their state of suffering, whilst perpetuating the system of abuse, and not radically challenging the roots of this oppression. As far as criticising 'violent' animal rights activists, the point was clearly missed in this book. I believe there is ample space to be critical of the animal rights movement (and this should be the case in any healthy movement), and there are many aspects that should be critiqued in order to look for improvement. But, if a serious ... Read More: Rating: - A must read for any serious animal advocate!Lee Hall has written a tremendously important work in Capers in the Churchyard - a must-read for any serious animal advocate. Those interested in the animal rights movement or any other ethical social movements will also find this book to be an asset. Taking us beyond slogans and one-line chants we've become accustomed to associating with animal advocacy, Hall leads us through the complex issues at hand of animal use in all forms -- not missing the uses within social movements themselves. Using up-to-date information and real-world examples, Hall leads the reader through a maze of animal industry practices and activists' reactions. Basing its conclusions on well documented and researched examples, the book distinguishes ethical conduct from that ... Read More: |
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