Renee King-Sonnen, a former Texas cattle rancher, converts her husband's beef operation into a sanctuary for farm animals and encourages other farmers to switch from animal agriculture to plant-based...

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Animals in Agriculture
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An intimate, highly-detailed, first-hand account of the operations of a modern slaughterhouse, depicting treatment of both workers and animals and demonstrating how violence can be organized so as to...

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Animals in Agriculture, Political Science, Social Sciences
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Discusses how the intersection of technology and increasing attention to the harms of factory farms are moving society toward a food system that is not based in slaughter.

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Replacement Innovation, Animals in Agriculture
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Examines the arguments for veganism as a moral imperative and determines that, while there are good reasons for such a move, they are not strong enough to support that conclusion, while nevertheless...

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Animals in Agriculture, Philosophy and Ethics
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An upclose and non-narrated view of the life of Luma, a dairy cow on a British farm.

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Animals in Agriculture
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Provides a critical examination of the corporate-controlled food industry in America.

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Animals in Agriculture
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A detailed analysis of the modern dairy industry from the perspective of its effects on the animals involved. Includes such topics as the difficulties of conducting research regarding the conditions...

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Animals in Agriculture, Geography, Social Sciences
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This brief monograph, though dated, is still relevant in describing the ways in which the welfare of farmed animals has been removed as a subject of legal regulation in the United States. Also in Law...

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Law and Policy, Animals in Agriculture
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A collection of essays by the founder of United Poultry Concerns, detailing 30 years of activism on behalf of chickens and other domesticated fowl. In addition to personal stories, the book highlights...

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Attitudes and Activism, Animals in Agriculture
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Closely examines a number of popular arguments addressing the ethics of eating meat.

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Animals in Agriculture, Attitudes and Activism
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