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Preface | |
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Introduction: Sanctuary | |
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A Special Bond | |
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The Ties That Bond | |
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The Biochemistry of the Bond | |
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Pet Keeping Through the Ages | |
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Domesticated Animals: �Bonded to the House� | |
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Animal Sacrifice: �The Perfect Gift� | |
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Animal Welfare and the �Great Republic of the Future� | |
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Self-Evident Truths | |
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The Mismeasure of Animals | |
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Thinking and Feeling: Shared Capacities | |
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Denying Animal Intelligence | |
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Signs of Change | |
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Lifesaving Dolphins and Dogs, Altruistic Elephants, and Other Remarkable Animals | |
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The Emotional Lives of Animals | |
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The Betrayal of the Bond | |
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A Message From Hallmark: Exposing Factory Farming | |
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The Slaughterhouse Next Door: Inside a California Meat Plant | |
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The Hypocrisy of �Happy Cows� | |
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Endless Denials: The Challenge of Reform | |
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�The New Agriculture�: The Ways of Industrial Farming | |
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�Meat Science�: Turkeys Who Can't Walk, Pigs Who Can't Move, and Other Victims of Agribusiness | |
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Stirring the Silent Majority | |
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A Culture of Cruelty: Animal Fighting in America | |
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Bad Newz on Moonlight Road: Dogfighting Comes Out of the Shadows | |
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Michael Vick and the Contradiction of Cruelty | |
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Blood Sport Through the Ages | |
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�The Feathered Warrior� | |
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�I Won't Disappoint You� | |
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For the Love of Pets | |
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Katrina and the Human-Animal Bond | |
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The Animals in Our Lives | |
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In the Name of Mercy: Animal Shelters and the Problem of Euthanasia | |
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Factory Farms for Dogs: The Tragedy of Puppy Mills | |
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The AKC and �the Maintenance of Purity� | |
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Nothing Fancy: The Costs of Reckless Breeding | |
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The Cull of the Wild | |
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Unfaithful Stewards: Betraying Yellowstone's Bison | |
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Killing and Longing: The Lessons of TR | |
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The Era of Rational Slaughter | |
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�Let's Kill Them All�: The Attack on Alaska's Wolves | |
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�Garbaging for Bears�: Commercial Hunting and Contemptible Conduct | |
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The Face of Innocence and the Shame of Canada | |
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Building a Humane World | |
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Cruelty and Its Defenders | |
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The Moral Scale and Humane Living | |
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Rhetorical Camouflage: Debating Opponents of Animal Protection | |
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Collateral Damage and the NRA | |
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�The Agro-Industrial Complex�: Harvesting Subsidies | |
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�The Rising Plague� and the Veterinary Oath | |
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The Humane Economy | |
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�Creative Destruction� and Living Capital | |
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Wild Neighbors | |
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Chemistry and Compassion | |
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Twenty-First-Century Science | |
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Innovation and the Spark of Life | |
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Appendix: Fifty Ways to Help Animals | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |