This collection of papers is based on research conducted under the auspices of Farm Sanctuary and headed by Lori Marino, Ph.D., that seeks to both collect relevant research and issue policy documents on the sentience of farmed animals and conduct original non-invasive and observational research on sanctuary animals
An overview of how animals resist in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Examines the ways in which animal resisters are portrayed, how their resistance disrupts both the dominant paradigm of human exceptionalism and the distancing strategies of enterprises that exploit animals, and seeks to place animals at the center of their own liberation movement.
A multidisciplinary collection of essays by scholars and those working with animals considering the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them.
Examines how animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who parse the meaning of other dogs' growls, and considers the implications for understanding the hierarchy of humans and other animals, as well as a new way of thinking about language.
Explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species and posits that the social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human. exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory.
Using concepts from moral and political philosophy, argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals, including, potentially, genetic engineering.
Using the concept of freedom as the touchstone for an analysis of animal needs and the realities of how animals are treated, animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff and bioethicist Jessica Pierce explore with a critical eye the ways in which animal freedom is constrained by human behavior in various settings, i.e., industrial food systems, laboratories, zoos and aquaria, homes, and the wild.
Bestselling observational reporting of animal behavior, along with reportage on neurological discoveries. Emphasizes the similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, personality and emotions.
First published in 1989, this is only one of a number of books by Rollin examining the arguments for and against animal use and the unwarranted denial of animal suffering by certain members of the scientific community. Includes an epilogue by the author describing what has changed, and what hasn’t, regarding the use of animals in scientific research and food production. (2d ed.)
Discussion by a prominent neuroscientist of current research on how animals experience the world, including animal sentience, emotions, and language.