A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy
Subtitle: the human cost of the animal rights movement
By: Wesley J. Smith.
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781594033469
Subjects: Animal rights; Human-animal relationships; Animal welfare
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Dean Koontz; title: Introduction; title: Part I: For the animals; title: Animal advocacy isn't what it used to be; title: All animals are equal; title: Animals are people too; title: Let it begin with apes; title: Here comes the judge; title: The silver spring monkey case; title: The death of a thousand cuts; title: Proselytizing children; title: Part II: By any means necessary; title: Advocating terror; title: Tertiary targeting; title: Praising with faith condemnation; title: Murder they wrote; title: Part III: For the people; title: Animal rights vs. medical research; title: Our system of animal research; title: Ensuring the proper care of lab animals; title: Meat is not murder; title: Fur, hunting, and zoos; title: The importance of being human.