Loving Animals

Toward a New Animal Advocacy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8106969
AutoresKathy Rudy (autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Páginas260
Data de publicação2011-08-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoLoving animals (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9780816674688.001.0001
OpenAlexW4240078243
Open LibraryOL24852868M
ISBN9780816674688
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

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. This book argues that in order to achieve such goals as ending animal testing and factory farming, activists need to be better attuned to the profound emotional, even spiritual, attachment that many people have with the animals in their lives. Offering an alternative to both the acceptance of animal exploitation and radical animal liberation, the text shows that a deeper understanding of the nature of our feelings for and about animals can redefine the human–animal relationship in a positive way. The text explores five realms in which humans use animals: as pets, for food, in entertainment, in scientific research, and for clothing. In each case it presents new methods of animal advocacy to reach a more balanced and sustainable relationship association built on reciprocity and connection

Animal ethics · Animal rights · Animal welfare · Criminology · Cruelty · Environmental ethics · Feeling · Geography · Human animal · Livestock · Sociology · Suspect · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Animal rights activists · Anthropology · Cultural · Djur och människor · Djurrätt · Moral and ethical aspects · Nature · Social Science · Tierethik · Ecology · Social Psychology