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Author:

Smith, Wesley J.

Title:

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy : the human cost of the animal rights movement / Wesley J. Smith.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Encounter Books,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Animal rights.
Human-animal relationships.
Animal welfare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / by Dean Koontz -- Introduction -- Part I: "For the animals" -- Animal advocacy isn't what it used to be -- "All animals are equal" -- Animals are people too -- Let it begin with apes -- Here comes the judge -- The Silver Spring monkey case -- The death of a thousand cuts -- Proselytizing children -- Part II: By any means necessary -- Advocating terror -- Tertiary targeting -- Praising with faith condemnation -- Murder they wrote? -- Part III: For the people -- Animal rights vs. medical research -- Our system of animal research -- Ensuring the proper care of lab animals -- Meat is not murder -- Fur, hunting, and zoos -- The importance of being human.

Summary:

For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.

ISBN:

1594033463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594033469 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)349251086

LCCN:

2009018977

Locations:

WBPB115 -- Albert City Public Library (Albert City)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)