Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog
- Gary L. Francione

In this easy-to-read introduction, animal rights advocate Gary L. Francione looks at our conventional moral thinking about animals. Using examples, analogies, and thought-experiments, he reveals the dramatic inconsistency between what we say we believe about animals and how we actually treat them. A guidebook to examining our social and personal ethical beliefs, this book takes us through concepts of property and equal consideration to arrive at the basic contention of animal rights: that everyone—human and non-human—has the right not to be treated as a means to an end. Along the way, it illuminates concepts and theories that all of us use but few of us understand—the nature of “rights” and “interests,” for example, and the theories of Locke, Descartes, and Bentham.

Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
- Gary L. Francione

A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist movement. In this collection, Francione advances the most radical theory of animal rights argued to date. Unlike Peter Singer, Francione maintains that we cannot morally justify using animals under any circumstances, and unlike Tom Regan, Francione’s theory applies to all sentient beings, and not only to those who have more sophisticated cognitive abilities.

Rain Without Thunder: The Idealogy of the Animal Rights Movement
- Gary L. Francione

Are “animal welfare” supporters indistinguishable from the animal exploiters they oppose? Do reformist measures reaffirm the underlying principles that make animal exploitation possible in the first place? In this provocative book, Gary L. Francione argues that the modern animal rights movement has become indistinguishable from a century-old concern with the welfare of animals that in no way prevents them from being exploited. In this wide-ranging book, Francione takes the reader through the philosophical and intellectual debates surrounding animal welfare to make clear the difference between animal rights and animal welfare.

Animals, Property and the Law
- Gary L. Francione

Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation? Gary L. Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish rights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings. Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, and the Animal Welfare Act, thoroughly documenting the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by law.

Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
- Bob Torres

Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, this book contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions and their relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts and bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry—and on the dinner plate.

Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation
- David Nibert

This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western civilization, one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues that the oppression both of humans and of other species of animals is inextricably tangled within the structure of social arrangements. Nibert asserts that human use and mistreatment of other animals are not natural and do little to further the human condition.

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
- Marjorie Spiegel

The Dreaded Comparison provocatively presents the first in-depth exploration of the similarities between the violence humans have wrought against other humans, and our culture's treatment of non-human animals. Marjorie Spiegel's examination of power and the source of oppressive behaviour is at once chilling and enlightening, and vitally important to our efforts to understand the roots of individual and societal violence.

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
- Charles Patterson

The title of the book is from "The Letter Writer," a short story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Basevis Singer (1904-91), to whom the book is dedicated: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialised slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself.

Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
- Steven Best & Anthony J. Nocella II (ed.)

The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insights into this international organization and its position within the animal rights movement. Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the Patriot Act—and, in some cases, personal experience—the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like "terrorism," "democracy" and "freedom," in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture.

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Animal Equality
- Joan Dunayer

The first book on language and non-human oppression, Joan Dunayer shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward non-human animals. Speciesism, the failure to accors other animals with equal consideration and respect, survives through lies. Dunayer provides a vivid expose of hunting, sport-fishing, zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection and 'animal agriculture' that reveal the euphemisms, doublespeak and other lingusitic ploys that legitimise and conceal cruelty and encourqage disregard for non-human animals. The book also contains thorough style and vocabulary guidelines to propose new language that will bring us closer to animal liberation.

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
- Carol Adams

Feminist activist and theorist, Carol Adams explores the intimate links between the slaughter of animals and the violence directed towards women. This provocative work unpacks the myth of meat-eating and masculinity and reviews literary and scientific sources to show the social connections between meat-eating, male dominance and war and the important alliance of vegetarianism and feminism.

The Pornography of Meat
- Carol Adams

Crusading for the rights of women and for nonhuman animals, Carol Adams charges that both have long been portrayed as consumable, mouth-watering slabs of meat. Graphic backup for this argument is provided by advertisements, signs, photographs and illustrations as she explores the objectification of women and nonhuman animals by industries who exploit both to sell their products.

Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America
- Nathan J. Winograd

Redemption is the story of animal sheltering in the United States, a movement that was born of compassion and then lost its way to become the leading cause of death for health dogs and cats. In 1994 one shelter embarked on a bold and revolutionary approach to animal sheltering and San Francisco became the first city in the United States to end the killing of healthy homeless dogs and cats in shelters. The "No Kill" movement it inspired has the potential to end, once and for all, the century-old notion that the best we can do for homeless dogs and cats is to adopt out a few, and kill the rest. This book contains important lessons relevant to Australia's own shelter movement which are also explored at the No Kill Advocacy Center.

Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination
- Scott Plous (ed.)

This anthology, edited by Scott Plous, contains a unique collection of readings on prejudice, discrimination, and diversity including a section on other animals as an 'outgroup', exploring speciesism, human-animal relations, animal protection, and vegetarianism. Interdisciplinary in scope and wide-ranging in approach, the anthology combines research articles, opinion polls, legal decisions, news reports, personal narratives, and more. The book can also be used in conjunction with UnderstandingPrejudice.org - a web site that includes interactive exercises and demonstrations, multimedia materials, tips for instructors, and other prejudice-related resources.