Explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. Based in fieldwork and analysis, covers government policy, positions of animal rights activists, and the history of animal welfare in China.
Examines the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it and calls for consideration of why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and still others as neither criminal nor abusive and argues for a more inclusive concept of harms to animals.
Examines the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals in a high-intake animal shelter and how those narratives dictate their chances for survival. Argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species.
Focuses on the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals, argues that exploitation of other animals has always gone hand in hand with the oppression of women, people of color, and other oppressed groups and analyzes the ideological forces and the use of state power in enforcing the uses of the oppressed, both human and animal. Suggests that the liberation of either devalued humans or animals ultimately depends on the liberation of the other.
A collection of writings from diverse academics from across the world, including pieces dealing with multiculturalism; group rights and the limits of tolerance; ethnocentrism and animals; racism and discrimination; and non-Western alternatives to animal rights and welfare.
A textbook for a course in human–animal studies focusing on interactions between humans and animals within the family, the law, religion, politics, etc., including such topics as speciesism, preservation of animals in the wild, domestication, factory farming, etc.
Artist, social critic and disability rights and animal rights advocate Sunaura Taylor examines the question of how physical and mental capabilities contribute to our understanding of what it means to be “human” and how that interacts with what we think it means to be “animal.” Through personal narrative, philosophy, science, etc., Taylor suggests that issues of disability and animal justice are deeply connected.
An early proponent of the idea that animals could be entitled to rights, Salt wrote: "If we are ever going to do justice to the lower races, we must get rid of the antiquated notion of a 'great gulf' fixed between them and mankind, and must recognize the common bond of humanity that unites all living beings in one universal brotherhood."