DeGrazia, David.
Summary: By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, the author explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 DEGSpeicher, Annie
Summary: Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, RIGHT TO HARM exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens throughout the United States. Filmed across the country, the documentary chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal agriculture. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - or CAFOs -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hourglass Films 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIGRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: "From 1939 to 2021, actress Betty White was one of the most beloved performers in the entertainment industry. She starred in fan-favorite television shows like The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and also blockbuster movies like Toy Story 4 and The Proposal. Over her decades-long career, Betty White won Emmy awards, was named an honorary mayor of Hollywood, earned a star on the Walk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHIHarman, Alice
Summary: The accepted definition of animal cruelty may differ between cultures and even between individual people. Some people may not mind eating meat, no matter where it came from, but think keeping animals in zoos in cruel. Others may abstain from eating meat or using animal products altogether. In addition, many animal-focused businesses make people a lot of money. How should young people decide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 179 HARRudy, Kathy.
Summary: " The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members--animal lovers outside the fray--extremist positions in which all human-animal interaction is suspect often discourage involvement in the movement to end cruelty to other beings. In Loving Animals, Kathy Rudy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 RUDSummary: Follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNLNagle, Jeanne
Summary: For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and lawmakers worldwide have debated the merits of affording certain rights to animals. Central to any discussion of the topic is morality, who, or what, possesses it, and how and when it should be bestowed. This examination of the animal rights movement covers this and other points of contention, as well as the history of the movement and the people at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 179 NAGNussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven)
Summary: "A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 NUSZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZALESKI, LAURIE ZALZaleski, Laurie
Summary: "Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues -- horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB ZALESKI ZAISummary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUNAbramovitz, Melissa
Summary: Examines the issue of animal rights, asking if animals should have similar rights to humans, if it is moral to eat meat, if animals should be used in entertainment, and if it ethical to experiment on them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 179 ABRNewkirk, Ingrid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noble Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.4 NEWRegan, Tom.
Summary: More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 REGPhillips, Allie
Contents: Animal welfare and animal rights : where do you stand? -- Becoming an animal advocate : where to start -- Staying strong and resilient : overcoming conflict and compassion fatigue -- Humane education : kids helping animals -- Advocating for shelter animals : ending outdated and questionable shelter practices -- Models for thriving animal organizations : saving more lives through innovation --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 PHIField, Thalia
Summary: "Whether exploring refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," or the pathetic fallacy, Personhood reveals that the unmistakable problem remaining between humans and our nonhuman relatives is one of language. Thalia Field's bold and engaging new work takes a wide lens on how power justifies itself at the extremes, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 FIEStevenson, Tyler (Tyler Dennis)
Summary: "Animals have alternately been considered pests, food, workers, test subjects, and, as is becoming increasingly common, companions. This begs the question: What rights should animals have? Through engaging text featuring annotated quotes from experts, readers learn about the changing role of animals and the ensuing changing attitudes of people toward how animals should be treated. Detailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 179 STED'Aquino, Andrea
Summary: "As a young girl, Florence Merriam Bailey fell in love with the outdoors, especially birds, whose songs and flight captivated her. She listened, waited, and watched to better understand her feathered friends, and wrote many books, including one of the first field guides to American birds. Her work ultimately led to better protection for birds and to the scientific study of birds in nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Envi D'AquinoBeers, Diane L.
Contents: Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 BEEMarquardt, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 MARGoodall, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.9541 GOOWise, Steven M.
Summary: Considers the cognitive abilities of animals along the evolutionary spectrum, identifies where the line for rights is currently drawn and which animals meet exemption criteria, and considers the work of prominent animal experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 WISWilliams, Erin E.
Summary: A comprehensive overview of human and environmental exploitation of animals including those used for experimental purposes, product testing, and animals raised for food or clothing or used in the entertainment business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 WILNewkirk, Ingrid
Summary: "From the co-founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone comes Animalkind, a book that offers both a tour of the wonderful world of animals and a guide to simple ways in which we can reduce the harm we cause them in our everyday lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020