Thanking the Monkey
Subtitle: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Harper; Publishers Group UK [distributor
Published: March 25, 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780061351853
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Animal Rights; Social Science / Popular Culture; Nature; Animals; Nature/Ecology
Table of contents: label: One
title: Welcome to the World of Animal Rights
pagenum: | 1; title: Animal Rights vs. Human Rights
pagenum: | 2; title: Animal What?
pagenum: | 3; pagenum: The Anti-Welfare Warriors | 5; title: Spotlight on Speciesism
pagenum: | 9; pagenum: On Equating Life | 10; pagenum: Mirror, Mirror | 14; title: Are There Limits?
pagenum: | 18; title: Can't We All Just Get Along?
pagenum: | 19; label: two
title: slaves to love
pagenum: Pets | 21; title: Canine Americans?
pagenum: | 21; title: Should We Have Pets at All?
pagenum: | 22; title: Breedism
pagenum: | 24; title: Paritney's Pet Store Adventures
pagenum: | 26; title: Copycat Killings
pagenum: | 28; title: Expensive Mutts
pagenum: | 29; title: Ritzy Rescues
pagenum: | 30; title: Paula and the Pit Bullies
pagenum: | 30; title: Cut Off His Balls?
pagenum: | 33; title: Doggie Prozac?
pagenum: | 34; title: Females First
pagenum: | 35; title: To Kill or Not to Kill?
pagenum: | 36; title: The Bound Leading the Blind
pagenum: | 38; title: Making Your Dog a Swan
pagenum: | 41; title: Kitty Mob Makeovers
pagenum: | 42; title: The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Dog Food
pagenum: | 43; title: Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts All Heaven in a Rage
pagenum: | 46; title: Confining Nemo
pagenum: | 49; title: Jurassic Bowl
pagenum: | 50; title: Our Interspecies Families
pagenum: | 51; pagenum: "Best Friends Need Shelter, Too" | 56; label: three
title: All the world's a cage
pagenum: Animal Entertainment | 59; title: A Bloody History Continues
pagenum: | 59; pagenum: The ABCDs of Animal Entertainment | 60; pagenum: Acquisition | 60; pagenum: Brutality | 60; pagenum: Confinement | 60; pagenum: Disposal | 60; title: Behind the Big Top
pagenum: | 61; pagenum: An Elephant Never Forgets a Bullhook | 63; pagenum: Chains, Trains, and Automobiles | 65; title: Zoos - It's No Jungle in There
pagenum: | 66; pagenum: The Elephant in the Room | 67; pagenum: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Star | 68; pagenum: Thai Torture | 69; pagenum: Out with the Old | 69; pagenum: Canned Hunting | 70; pagenum: Wanted - Dead or Alive | 70; pagenum: Curiosity Killed the Chimp | 71; pagenum: Please Don't Eat the Animals | 71; pagenum: Urban Elephant | 71; title: Marine Parks
pagenum: | 74; pagenum: Shame Shame Shamu | 74; pagenum: Lolita - Slave to Entertainment | 77; title: Hollywood Stories
pagenum: | 79; pagenum: Tarzan and Jane Goodall | 79; pagenum: It's Hard Out Here for a Chimp | 80; pagenum: Oliver's Travels | 81; pagenum: My Dead Flicka | 83; pagenum: Flipper's Suicide | 84; title: Cowboys and Injuries - The Rodeo
pagenum: | 87; pagenum: Shocking Abuse | 87; pagenum: Bloodless Bullfights? | 87; title: Just Kidding Fishing
pagenum: | 89; title: Running for Their Lives - The Racing Industries
pagenum: | 91; pagenum: Derby Winner Dinner | 91; pagenum: Dead Dog Walking | 96; pagenum: The Great Turtle Race | 98; title: A Better Tomorrowland
pagenum: | 99; label: four
title: Fashion Victims
pagenum: Animal Clothing | 105; title: Fur - You Have to be Pretty Cold
pagenum: | 105; pagenum: Going Clubbing | 107; pagenum: How Much is That Dead Doggie in the Window? | 109; pagenum: Faux Faux | 110; pagenum: Do Nice Girls Fake it? | 111; title: Leather - A Fatal Fetish
pagenum: | 114; title: Not So Warm and Fuzzy Wool
pagenum: | 117; pagenum: A Pound of Flesh | 120; pagenum: Sheep Shipping | 120; title: Down - No Comforter for the Animals
pagenum: | 121; title: Silkworm Union?
pagenum: | 122; title: Toward Fashion with Compassion
pagenum: | 124; label: five
title: Deconstructing Dinner
pagenum: | 127; title: At the Slaughterhouse
pagenum: | 127; pagenum: Dying Piece by Piece | 127; pagenum: Fowl Outs | 129; pagenum: Pilgrim's Shame | 131; pagenum: Butterball Bullies | 131; pagenum: Raeford Rocky Rehearsals | 131; pagenum: Kosher Kindess? | 132; title: Highway to Hell
pagenum: | 133; pagenum: Poultry in Motion | 136; pagenum: Long Day's Journey into Night | 136; pagenum: Talk About a Downer | 137; title: Factory Farming
pagenum: | 138; pagenum: Life in a Coffin - The Sow Gestation Crate | 139; pagenum: Communal Crates | 141; pagenum: Chickens Can't Stand in Standing Room Only | 143; pagenum: A Hard Act to Swallow - Foi Gras | 144; pagenum: "Thanking the Turkey Who Changed Thanksgiving?" | 146; title: The Steer's Life
pagenum: | 148; title: Kill a horse to Eat a Cow
pagenum: | 150; pagenum: A Mane Course | 150; title: Eating Nemo - Fish
pagenum: | 152; pagenum: Fish School | 155; pagenum: Gregarious Groupers | 155; pagenum: Long Deaths on Lone Lines | 156; pagenum: Gruesome Gill Nets | 156; pagenum: Trawling and "Trash Animals" | 157; pagenum: Dolphin Discards | 157; pagenum: Feedlots of the Sea | 158; pagenum: Fishy Business Practices | 160; pagenum: A Shark's Tale | 161; title: Why Vegan - No Eggs or Dairy?
pagenum: | 161; pagenum: California's Unhappy Cows | 162; pagenum: Babes in the Wood Crates | 165; pagenum: "Got Milk? You've Got Problems" | 166; pagenum: Egg-regious Cruelty | 169; pagenum: Chicken Run Lessons | 170; pagenum: Zombie Chickens | 171; pagenum: Scrambled Egg Layers | 172; title: Label Laws and Label Lies
pagenum: | 172; pagenum: Wholesome Organics? | 172; pagenum: Organic Dairy (Factory) Farms | 174; pagenum: Welfare Wiggle Room | 175; pagenum: The Chicken and the Egg Labels | 176; pagenum: Cage-Free Eggs - Not All They're Cracked Up to Be | 177; pagenum: Scamming Caring Consumers | 178; title: Bee Vomit
pagenum: | 179; title: Happy Hunting
pagenum: | 189; title: In Vitro Meat - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?
pagenum: | 184; title: Human Health
pagenum: | 186; pagenum: Ronald McDonald Strikes Again | 186; pagenum: "There's Shit in the Meat" | 187; pagenum: Dangerous Liaisons | 189; pagenum: Fuzzy Recall | 190; pagenum: Everything Old is New Again | 190; pagenum: Method in the Mad Cow Madness | 192; pagenum: Added Dangers | 194; pagenum: Finger-Lickin' Bad for You | 195; pagenum: Skinny Chick? | 196; pagenum: More to Make You Chicken Out | 196; pagenum: Mercury rising in the Ocean | 197; pagenum: Other Funky Fish Facts | 200; pagenum: Not Milk | 200; pagenum: Chew the Right Thing | 202; pagenum: Taking Care with Vegan Fare | 205; pagenum: Veggie Power | 208; title: Why Hurt Anybody If You Don't Have To?
pagenum: | 212; label: six
title: Animals Anonymous
pagenum: Animal Testing | 215; title: Torture is Legal
pagenum: | 215; title: Do Animal Tests Save Human Lives?
pagenum: | 216; pagenum: Should We Refuse Animal - Tested Medicine? | 221; pagenum: Spare Parts - Xenotransplanation | 221; pagenum: Bitter Medicine | 222; pagenum: Testing Painkillers Painlessly | 225; pagenum: What We Already Know Hurts Them | 225; title: Necessary Evils?
pagenum: | 226; pagenum: Maternal Deprivation Madness | 226; pagenum: Baboons on Ecstasy | 228; pagenum: He's Just Not That into Ewe | 229; pagenum: Femme Fatalities | 231; pagenum: Really Painful Periods | 231; pagenum: ... And Difficult Pregnancies | 232; pagenum: Foods That Fatten Drug Company Wallets | 234; title: Killing Animals to Kill People
pagenum: | 236; pagenum: Weapons on Dog Destruction | 236; pagenum: Taser Tales | 236; pagenum: Pigs of War | 237; pagenum: Innocent Until Proven Animals | 237; title: Looks That Kill
pagenum: | 238; pagenum: Blinding Beauty | 239; pagenum: Skin Deep | 240; pagenum: Botoxic | 241; title: Who Would You Kill for Brighter Whites?
pagenum: | 241; title: Are Rats and Mice Animals?
pagenum: | 245; pagenum: Like a Used Tissue | 248; pagenum: Depressing Depression Studies | 248; title: Is It Ever Right to Experiment on Animals?
pagenum: | 250; pagenum: Let's Look at Aziz | 250; pagenum: Facing Felix | 250; pagenum: Fox and Felix | 254; title: Voluntary Guinea Pigs
pagenum: | 258; title: Thanking the Monkey
pagenum: | 260; pagenum: The Unnatural history of Chimpanzees | 261; pagenum: The Chimp Act | 267; pagenum: Are Some Animals More Equal Than Others? | 267; title: So Where Do We Go from Here?
pagenum: | 268; pagenum: The Seduction of Reduction | 268; pagenum: The Gentle Touch of Refinement | 269; pagenum: Ultimately - Replacement | 269; label: seven
title: The Greenies
pagenum: | 273; title: The Earth is Common Ground
pagenum: | 273; title: Fighting Factory - Farm Filth
pagenum: | 274; pagenum: Pig Shit Lagoons and Rivers | 274; pagenum: Dairy Farm Delights | 275; pagenum: What if the Shit Don't Stink | 276; pagenum: A Gory Gorey Truth | 277; pagenum: Little Piggies - Eating Everybody Else's Food | 279; title: War on the Whales
pagenum: | 284; pagenum: Deadly Decibels | 284; pagenum: The Warring Rainbow Warriors | 286; title: Green Meanies
pagenum: | 288; pagenum: Death by Do - gooders | 288; title: Hunting - The Great Divide
pagenum: | 289; pagenum: Audubowhunt Society? | 292; pagenum: The Ghost of Mr. Muir | 292; pagenum: National Wilddeath Federation | 293; pagenum: Bloodbath in the Nursery | 293; pagenum: Killing to Be Kind? | 296; pagenum: The Right to Arm Bears | 297; pagenum: Bambi's Revenge | 299; pagenum: The Removal of the Fittest | 299; pagenum: Nature Conservancy Annihilations | 300; pagenum: Drive-by Population Control? | 301; title: Natural Allies
pagenum: | 302; label: eight
title: Compassion in Action
pagenum: | 305; title: The Best Government Money Can Buy
pagenum: | 305; pagenum: Horsing Around with the Law | 306; pagenum: Legislators Bringing Home the Bacon | 310; pagenum: Power to the Poopers | 310; pagenum: Ballot Boxes | 311; pagenum: Living with  Electile Dysfucntion | 311; pagenum: See Ya Later Animal Hater | 313; pagenum: Crossing the Line to Save Lives | 313; pagenum: Letters to the Legislature | 314; title: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
pagenum: | 315; pagenum: On Hating Heifer | 316; title: Media Matters
pagenum: | 318; pagenum: Media Circus | 321; pagenum: Slaughterhouse Five TV | 324; pagenum: The Power of One | 326; pagenum: Animal Love Letters | 326; pagenum: DawnWatch | 327; pagenum: From Armchairs to Sidewalks | 328; pagenum: Running of the Nudes | 330; title: Freedom Fighters
pagenum: | 333; pagenum: From the Front Line to the Front Page | 333; pagenum: Outsourcing Tech Support and Torture Support | 335; pagenum: Militant Mishaps | 336; pagenum: Grave Consequences | 336; pagenum: SHAC Backlash | 337; pagenum: A SHAC Retraction? | 342; title: The Psychology of Persuasion
pagenum: | 343; title: Personal Change
pagenum: | 346; pagenum: Flexitarian or Very Vegan? | 346; title: Talk the Walk
pagenum: | 348; label: recommended resource groups
pagenum: | 350; title: PETA and PETA2
pagenum: | 350; title: Farm Sanctuary
pagenum: | 350; title: Other Animal Sanctuaries
pagenum: | 350; title: Legislation - HSUS
pagenum: | 351; title: Health Issues
pagenum: | 351; title: Animals in Entertainment
pagenum: | 352; title: Conservation
pagenum: | 352; title: Grass Roots Groups
pagenum: | 352; title: For Your Body and Soul
pagenum: | 352; title: And Finally, MEDIA!
pagenum: | 353; label: notes
pagenum: | 354; label: acknowledgments
pagenum: | 372; label: index
pagenum: | 374