PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble

Name: PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
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ISBN: 9780312559946

ISBN-10: 0312559941

ISBN-13: 9780312559946

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ingrid Newkirk

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With more than two million members and supporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the world's largest animal-rights organization, and its founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, is one of the most well-known and most effective activists in America. She has spearheaded worldwide efforts to improve the treatment of animals in manufacturing, entertainment, and elsewhere.Every day, in laboratories, food factories, and other industries, animals by the millions are subjected to inhumane cruelty. In this accessible guide, Newkirk teaches readers hundreds of simple ways to stop thoughtless animal cruelty and make positive choices.For each topic, Newkirk provides hard facts,…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Ingrid E. Newkirk is cofounder and president of PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the largest animal rights organization in the world. Her campaigns to save animals have been featured in The Washington Post and other national newspapers. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline, and 20/20 among others, and has spoken internationally on animal protection, from the steps of the Canadian Parliament to the streets of New Delhi, India. Among her books are Free the Animals, Animal Rights Weekend Warrior, and the PETA Celebrity Cookbook.



Acknowledgments


Foreword by Bill Maher


PETA: How It All Began


Author's Note: Join the Army of the Kind



The Issues



Not "What" but Who Are Animals?


What You Can Do: Respect Animals



How Animals End Up as Dinner


What You Can Do: Help Animals Used for Food



Those Incredibly Amusing Animals


What You Can Do: Animals in Entertainments



Blood Sports: Hunting and Fishing


What You Can Do: Hunting and Fishing



Cute "Pet" or Complex Individual and Friend for Life?


What You Can Do: Companion Animals



What's Really Going on in Laboratories


What You Can Do: Help Get Animals Out of Laboratories



Fur, Feathers, Baubles, Bits, and Bones...


What You Can Do: Make Your Closet Cruelty-Free



Dissection Must Go


What You Can Do: Stop Dissection in Your School Science Labs



Dealing Ethically with "Pests"


What You Can Do: Wildlife



Choosing a Health Charity


What You Can Do: Ask Questions Before You Donate



Resources



Health Charities



Recommended Books and Videos



Organizations That Promote Animal Welfare



Helpful Businesses



Companies That Do Not Use Animals to Test Their Companion-Animal Food



How to Make Cruelty-Free Products at Home



Contacting the Media and the Government


Index