Reading and Media Resources: Attitudes and Activism

An anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing that depicts animals in authentic ways and gives them realistic voices.

Considers the ramifications of the creation of legal obstacles to counter the advances of both environmental and animal activism.

Closely examines a number of popular arguments addressing the ethics of eating meat.

Written for a popular audience, this book examines the question of why most people's consumption behaviors are not in line with their ethical beliefs regarding the treatment of animals.

A manifesto on the need to abolish, not regulate, animal use.

Tolstoy’s account of witnessing slaughter, and his conclusion that if a person “be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use...

A psychologist’s discussion of some of the internal mechanisms and messages people use to justify very different treatment of cognitively similar animals.

Attempts to apply principles of effective altruism to animal charities and rate their work accordingly.

Placing language at the center of philosophical analysis, and focusing on public concern for animals, this work shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights to the vocabulary people use to...

Advocates for all social movements to collectively foster a cultural shift in human identity away from an egoistic anthropocentrism (human-centered outlook) and toward a more holistic valuing of...