A series of essays examining the rhetorical strategies used by the animal agriculture industry to deflect criticism of its animal treatment and environmental policies.

Topics: Animals in Agriculture, Attitudes and Activism
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A Cornell Professor of Law tackles, in meticulous and persuasive detail, many of the questions that are regularly presented to those who refrain from exploiting animals for food and other purposes and...

Topics: Attitudes and Activism
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A South African kelp forest octopus forms an unlikely bond with a filmmaker who gains insights into the animal's world as she shares its mysteries.

Topics: Animals in the Wild
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Examines the work of four prominent theorists of nature, Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox, and argues against their allegiance to abstract constructs, and instead...

Topics: Animals in the Wild
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Chronicles the bizarre history of Project Nim, a language research project in which the subject chimpanzee was raised like a human child, taught sign language, and, when funding ran out, placed in...

Topics: Animals in Research
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A collection of New Yorker writer Susan Orlean’s essays on animals, including backyard chickens, show dogs, pet tigers, mules, homing pigeons, animals in film, Free Willy, and more.

Topics: Animals as Companions
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By engaging with the Christian tradition regarding creation, reconciliation, and redemption, this book, through the application of principles of systematic theology, challenges modern assumptions...

Topics: Religion
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By engaging with the Christian tradition regarding creation, reconciliation, and redemption, this book, through the application of principles of systematic theology, challenges modern assumptions...

Topics: Religion
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In this second volume of his comprehensive survey of human practice in relation to other animals, and building on the analysis of Christian ethics, as they relate to animals, developed in Volume 1...

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

Topics: Attitudes and Activism
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