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Changing the Game : Why the Battle for Animal Liberation Is So Hard and How We Can Win It.
In this controversial and timely book, animal liberation activist Norm Phelps argues that the animal rights movement has reached a crisis point.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Lantern Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; An Asymmetrical War; Challenge, Environment, Response: A Framework for Analyzing Strategy; Words; Introduction: It's Time to Change the Game; Part One: The Challenge: "The Most Difficult Battle Ever Fought"; Chapter One: The Universal Crime; It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!; "Food! Glorious Food!"; Chapter Two: Slave Owners for Abolition; The Missing Loop; The Othermost Beings; Chapter Three: We Are All Nazis-And If I Quit Eating Meat, I'll Have to Admit That to Myself; The Crime Worse Than Genocide.
- The Shock of RecognitionLooking Out for Number One; Chapter Four: The Crown of Creation and the Acme of Evolution; Chapter Five: Follow the Money; Chapter Six: "Optimism of the Will"; Part Two: The Environment: "A Dark Age Was About to Begin"; Chapter Seven: "It Ain't What You Do, It's the Time That You Do It"; Chapter Eight: The Empire Strikes Back; The Destruction of the American Community; The Dream of a Great Society; Chapter Nine: The Madness of More; The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Fired and Foreclosed; Democracy Comes Back to America.
- Chapter Ten: Creating a Universal Rights MovementHalfway There; Our Other Natural Allies; Chapter Eleven: We're Not in Kansas Anymore; By the Numbers; You Can Take Your Old Enlightenment and Go Sit in the Corner; The Universal Value; When the World Changed Course; Give Me That Old Time Religion; The Rites of Succession; Part Three: Responses: The Prize and the Plow; Chapter Twelve: Agitators and Politicians; In the Beginning Was the Word; In the Beginning Was the Deed; Talkin' Union; John Brown's Body; Chapter Thirteen: In the Beginning; The First Politician on the Scene; Empty Victories.
- Chapter Fourteen: The Movement Turns to PoliticsOf Politics and Pigeons: A Compromise Settlement; Animals Get the Vote: Lobbying and Electoral Processes; Meatless Mondays and Vegan Options: Reducing Consumption; Persuading Manufacturers and Sellers of Animal Products to Demand less Cruelty; Faux Is For Real: Alternatives to Animal Products; A Caveat; Chapter Fifteen: "Abolitionism:" The Agitation-Only Approach to Animal Rights; Hobgoblin; Chapter Sixteen: How Welfare Reforms Promote Liberation; Cognitive Dissonance and Bounded Ethicality; Chapter Seventeen: The Proof of the Pudding.
- The Victory of Faith over EvidenceMaybe They're Eating Fish; Chapter Eighteen: Suffering Matters; Chapter Nineteen: Public Policy and Private Morality; Putting Animal Liberation in the Public Tradition; Chapter Twenty: Why Violence Can't Change the Game for Animals; Higher Ground; America the Paranoid; An Exception to the Rule; Action Memo: A Seven-Point Program for Changing the Game; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Endnotes.