Animal rights activist
Title
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Animal rights activist
Personal Author EPSB
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Carrie. Gleason
Summary
:
The fight for animal rights can be controversial. Modern champions for animal rights believe that animals should not be regarded as property, and they should not be used for food, clothing, for entertainment, or in scientific research. This illuminating book helps explain the difference between animal welfare and animal rights, and what "cruelty" is and who defines it. Young animal lovers will learn how they can fight for the protection and preservation of animals in a peaceful way.
Year Published
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2010
Series
:
Get involved!
Physical Description
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32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Note
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Includes index.
Contents
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What are animal rights? -- What is an activist? -- Welfare or rights? -- History of animal rights -- Birth of animal rights -- Vegetarianism -- Animal testing -- Factory farming -- Fighting cruelty -- In the trenches -- What you can do -- Saving the animals.
Subject
:
Animal rights activists -- United States.
Animal rights -- United States -- Vocational guidance.
Animal welfare -- United States.
Animal rights activists.
Animal rights.
Animal welfare.
Summary
:
The fight for animal rights can be controversial. Modern champions for animal rights believe that animals should not be regarded as property, and they should not be used for food, clothing, for entertainment, or in scientific research. This illuminating book helps explain the difference between animal welfare and animal rights, and what "cruelty" is and who defines it. Young animal lovers will learn how they can fight for the protection and preservation of animals in a peaceful way.
ISBN
:
9780778747055
9780778746935
Publisher
:
New York, NY : Crabtree Pub., c2010.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Elizabeth Finch | 179 GLE | Book | 31459000026303 | Non-Fiction |