How to Do Animal Rights
Subtitle: legally with confidence
Publisher: lulu.com
Published: 2014
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781291015928
Table of contents: title: 1 Introduction; title: 1.1 The Broad Setting 7; title: - the big problem.; title: 1.2 Mass Extinction 9; title: - we live in the Sixth Extinction.; title: 1.3 Animal Holocaust 11; title: - we live in an enduring and worsening Animal Holocaust.; title: 1.4 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity 12; title: - scientists attempt to alert the world to the impending catastrophe.; title: 2 Philosophy: Key Topics; title: 2.1 Animal Rights 16; title: - know what animal rights are.; title: 2.2 Equal Consideration 21; title: - are animal and human moral interests equally important?; title: 2.3 Animal Ethics 23; title: - defend your animal rights activism rationally.; title: 2.4 Consequentialism 29; title: - the morality of your action depends only on its consequences.; title: 2.5 Deontology 30; title: - the morality of your action depends only on doing your duty.; title: 2.6 Virtue Ethics 31; title: - the morality of your action depends only on your character.; title: 2.7 Comparing Philosophies 33; title: - comparing animal rights with ethics, welfare & conservation.; title: 2.8 Deep Ecology 37; title: - contrasts with animal rights and gives it perspective.; title: 3 Campaigning: Methods for Animal Rights; title: 3.1 How to Start Being Active for Animal Rights 40; title: - change society for the better.; title: 3.2 Civil Disobedience 46; title: - campaign to right injustice.; title: 3.3 Direct Action 49; title: - a stronger form of civil disobedience.; title: 3.4 Action Planning 55; title: - take care that your activities are successful.; title: 3.5 Lobbying 60; title: - sway the prominent and influential.; title: 3.6 Picketing 65; title: - protest your target visibly and publicly.; title: 3.7 Starting a Group 68; title: - find and organise your troops.; title: 3.8 Leafleting 75; title: - reach out to influence people.; title: 3.9 News Media 77; title: - use and handle the news media.; title: 3.10 Internet 80; title: - communicate globally with the widest reach.; title: 4 Activities for Animal Rights; title: 4.1 Teacher 83; title: - an effective way of opening minds to ideas.; title: 4.2 Animal Lawyer 86; title: - practice law to advance animals and their allies.; title: 4.3 Undercover Investigator 89; title: - amass the evidence that animal advocates fire at abusers.; title: 4.4 Video Activist 92; title: - seize people's attention with vivid reality.; title: 4.5 Animal Preacher 97; title: - expound The Word for animals.; title: 4.6 Animal Rescuer 100; title: - liberate abused animals.; title: 4.7 Investigative Reporter 102; title: - probe questionable activities hidden from the public.; title: 4.8 Media Watcher 105; title: - sway the shapers of public opinion.; title: 4.9 Street Theatre Actor 107; title: - perform and entertain for animal rights on the streets.; title: 4.10 Blogger 109; title: - use your creative writing skills for animals.; title: 4.11 Philosopher 112; title: - philosophers do it by reasoning.; title: 4.12 Paramotor Flyer 116; title: - look down on your opponents to see what they are up to.; title: 4.13 Personal Activist 119; title: - includes the single most effective thing you can do for animals.; title: 4.14 Author – Playwright 122; title: - write short stories, novels and plays of the animal rights genre.; title: 4.15 Animal Friendly Traveller 126; title: - prepare yourself for travel abroad.; title: 4.16 Politician 129; title: - start your own animal political party.; title: 4.17 Prisoner Supporter 131; title: - succour animal rights prisoners.; title: 4.18 Public & School Speaker 133; title: - orate on behalf of animals.; title: 4.19 Drone (UAV) Flyer for Animal Protection 136; title: - fly drones for aerial animal protection data gathering.; title: 4.20 Scientific Investigator 139; title: - plan, scrutinise, analyse and report.; title: 4.21 Solo Information Worker 141; title: - display info and eye-catching knowledge.; title: 4.22 Voluntary Worker Abroad 142; title: - jump for animal rights into far-off cultures .; title: 5 The Law & Animal Rights; title: 5.1 Terrorism 144; title: - a few people wielding disproportionate pressure.; title: 5.2 Violence or Nonviolence? 147; title: - can we licence violence?; title: 5.3 The Law - US & Britain 152; title: - what might you be up against?; title: 5.4 Police Arrest 155; title: - prepare by knowing what to expect.; title: 6 Animal Statistics; title: 6.1 Summary 158; title: - some of the billions people kill annually.; title: 6.2 Meat Statistics 160; title: - how much meat do people eat?; title: 6.3 Chicken Statistics 163; title: - how many chickens do people kill?; title: 6.4 Pig/Hog Statistics 167; title: - people kill 23 million pigs a week.; title: 6.5 Sheep & Goat Statistics 169; title: - how many sheep & goats do people kill?; title: 6.6 Beef Cattle Statistics 172; title: - how many cattle do people kill?; title: 6.7 Fish Statistics 175; title: - how much fish do people farm and catch from the sea?; title: 6.8 Fur Animal Statistics 177; title: - the fur trade kills endless millions and threatens species.; title: 6.9 Numbers of Animals in Biomedical Research 182; title: - how many animals do people experiment on in laboratories?; title: 7 Personalities; title: 7.1 Aristotle 186; title: - animals cannot reason so we can use them without consideration.; title: 7.2 Thomas Aquinas 186; title: - God made animals for man and it is not a sin to kill them.; title: 7.3 Jeremy Bentham 187; title: - the question is not can animals reason but can they suffer?; title: 7.4 Nicolaus Copernicus, 187; title: - humanity does not occupy a privileged position in the cosmos.; title: 7.5 Charles Darwin 188; title: - explained how humans are animals that evolved from animals.; title: 7.6 Rene Descartes 189; title: - propounded that animals are automata, a view adopted by science.; title: 7.7 John Lawrence 190; title: - one of the earliest modern writers on animal rights.; title: 7.8 Richard Martin 190; title: - he fought for laws and duelled for animals.; title: 7.9 Henry Salt 191; title: - the first animal rights book.; title: 7.10 Steven Best 192; title: - we are in a battlefield not at a bargaining table.; title: 7.11 Andrew Linzey 194; title: - the face of Christianity embracing animals.; title: 7.12 The McLibel Two 194; title: - laid bare the nasty deeds of quick food business.; title: 7.13 Ingrid Newkirk 196; title: - a wheel needs all its spokes to make it go round.; title: 7.14 Jill Phipps 198; title: - a hero whose actions will inspire.; title: 7.15 Henry Spira 198; title: - the most effective activist of the modern animal rights movement.; title: 7.16 Philosophers Three: Regan, Ryder, Singer 200; title: - activism comes in words as well as deeds.; title: 8 Five Extras; title: 8.1 Universal Declaration on Animals 203; title: - the hope is to recognise animals as sentient beings.; title: 8.2 The Five Freedoms 205; title: - ideals of welfare more honoured in the breach.; title: 8.3 Human Overpopulation 206; title: - the more people the more animal abuse.; title: 8.4 Zoos 209; title: - what are zoos for?; title: 8.5 Climate Change 214; title: - the greatest burden on our moral behaviour.; title: 9 Epilogue; title: 9.1 On Hopelessness 216; title: - or feelings of pointless inadequacy and ineptitude doing animal rights.