Thanking the Monkey电子书

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments for the E-Edition

Acknowledgments

Foreword to the E-Edition

Chapter One: Welcome to the World of Animal Rights

Animal Rights vs. Human Rights

Animal What?

The Anti-Welfare Warriors

Spotlight on Speciesism

On Equating Life

Mirror, Mirror

Are There Limits?

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Chapter Two: Slaves to Love: Pets

Canine Americans?

Should We Have Pets at All?

Breedism

Paritney’s Pet Store Adventures

Copycat Killings

Expensive Mutts

Ritzy Rescues

Paula and the Pit Bullies

Cut Off His Balls?

Doggie Prozac?

Females First

To Kill or Not to Kill?

The Bound Leading the Blind

Making Your Dog a Swan

Kitty Mob Makeovers

The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Dog Food

Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts All Heaven in a Rage

Confining Nemo

Jurassic Bowl

Our Interspecies Families

“Best Friends Need Shelter, Too”

Chapter Three: All the World’s a Cage: Animal Entertainment

A Bloody History Continues

The ABCDs of Animal Entertainment

Acquisition

Brutality

Confinement

Disposal

Behind the Big Top

An Elephant Never Forgets a Bullhook

Chains, Trains, and Automobiles

Zoos—It’s No Jungle in There

The Elephant in the Room

Spare the Rod and Spoil the Star

Thai Torture

Out with the Old

Canned Hunting

Wanted—Dead or Alive

Curiosity Killed the Chimp

Please Don’t Eat the Animals

Urban Elephant

Marine Parks

Shame Shame Shamu

Lessons from the Cove

Lolita—Slave to Entertainment

Hollywood Stories

Tarzan and Jane Goodall

It’s Hard Out Here for a Chimp

Oliver’s Travels

My Dead Flicka

Flipper’s Suicide

Cowboys and Injuries—The Rodeo

Shocking Abuse

Bloodless Bullfights?

Just Kidding Fishing

Running for Their Lives—The Racing Industries

Derby Winner Dinner

Dead Dog Walking

The Great Turtle Race

A Better Tomorrowland

Chapter Four: Fashion Victims: Animal Clothing

Fur—You Have to Be Pretty Cold

Going Clubbing

How Much Is That Dead Doggie in the Window?

Faux Faux

Do Nice Girls Fake It?

Leather—A Fatal Fetish

Not So Warm and Fuzzy Wool

A Pound of Flesh

Sheep Shipping

Down—No Comforter for the Animals

Silkworm Union?

Toward Fashion with Compassion

Chapter Five: Deconstructing Dinner

At the Slaughterhouse

Dying Piece by Piece

Fowl Outs

Pilgrim’s Shame

Butterball Bullies

Raeford Rocky Rehearsals

Kosher Kindness?

Highway to Hell

Poultry in Motion

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Talk About a Downer

Factory Farming

Life in a Coffin—The Sow Gestation Crate

Communal Crates

Chickens Can’t Stand in Standing Room Only

A Hard Act to Swallow—Foie Gras

“Thanking the Turkey Who Changed Thanksgiving”

This Steer’s Life

Kill a Horse to Eat a Cow

A Mane Course

Eating Nemo—Fish

Fish School

Gregarious Groupers

Long Deaths on Long Lines

Gruesome Gill Nets

Trawling and “Trash Animals”

Dolphin Discards

Feedlots of the Sea

Fishy Business Practices

A Shark’s Tale

Why Vegan—No Eggs or Dairy?

California’s Unhappy Cows

Babes in the Wood Crates

“Got Milk? You’ve Got Problems”

Egg-regious Cruelty

Chicken Run Lessons

Zombie Chickens

Scrambled Egg Layers

Label Laws and Label Lies

Wholesome Organics?

Organic Dairy (Factory) Farms

Welfare Wiggle Room

The Chicken and the Egg Labels

Cage-Free Eggs—Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be

Scamming Caring Consumers

Bee Vomit

Happy Hunting

In Vitro Meat—The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?

Human Health

Ronald McDonald Strikes Again

“There’s Shit in the Meat”

Dangerous Liaisons

Fuzzy Recall

Everything Old Is New Again

Method in the Mad Cow Madness

Added Dangers

Finger-Lickin’ Bad for You

Skinny Chick?

More to Make You Chicken Out

Mercury Rising in the Ocean

Other Funky Fish Facts

Not Milk

Chew the Right Thing

Taking Care with Vegan Fare

Veggie Power

Why Hurt Anybody If You Don’t Have To?

Chapter Six: Animals Anonymous: Animal Testing

Torture Is Legal

Do Animal Tests Save Human Lives?

Should We Refuse Animal-Tested Medicine?

Spare Parts—Xenotransplantation

Bitter Medicine

Testing Painkillers Painlessly?

What We Already Know Hurts Them

Necessary Evils?

Maternal Deprivation Madness

Baboons on Ecstasy

He’s Just Not That into Ewe

Femme Fatalities

Really Painful Periods

. . . And Difficult Pregnancies

Foods That Fatten Drug Company Wallets

Killing Animals to Kill People

Weapons of Dog Destruction

Taser Tales

Pigs of War

Innocent Until Proven Animal

Looks That Kill

Blinding Beauty

Skin Deep

Botoxic

Who Would You Kill for Brighter Whites?

Are Rats and Mice Animals?

Like a Used Tissue

Depressing Depression Studies

Is It Ever Right to Experiment on Animals?

Let’s Look at Aziz

Facing Felix

Fox and Felix

Voluntary Guinea Pigs

Thanking the Monkey

The Unnatural History of Chimpanzees

The Chimp Act

Are Some Animals More Equal Than Others?

So Where Do We Go from Here?

The Seduction of Reduction

The Gentle Touch of Refinement

Ultimately—Replacement

Chapter Seven: The Greenies

The Earth Is Common Ground

Fighting Factory-Farm Filth

Pig Shit Lagoons and Rivers

Dairy Farm Delights

What If the Shit Don’t Stink?

A Gory Gorey Truth

Little Piggies—Eating Everybody Else’s Food

War on the Whales

Deadly Decibels

Anti-Whaler Wars

Green Meanies

Death by Do-gooders

Hunting—The Great Divide

Audubowhunt Society?

The Ghost of Mr. Muir

National Wilddeath Federation

Bloodbath in the Nursery

Killing to Be Kind?

The Right to Arm Bears?

Bambi’s Revenge

The Removal of the Fittest

Nature Conservancy Annihilations

Drive-by Population Control?

Natural Allies

Chapter Eight: Compassion in Action

The Best Government Money Can Buy

Horsing Around with the Law

Legislators Bringing Home the Bacon

Power to the Poopers

Ballot Boxes

Living with Electile Dysfunction

See Ya Later Animal Hater

Crossing the Line to Save Lives

Letters to the Legislature

If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em

On Hating Heifer

Media Matters

Media Circus

Slaughterhouse Five TV

The Power of One

Animal Love Letters

DawnWatch

From Armchairs to Sidewalks

Running of the Nudes

Freedom Fighters

From the Front Line to the Front Page

Outsourcing Tech Support and Torture Support

Militant Mishaps

Grave Consequences

SHAC Backlash

A SHAC Retraction?

The Psychology of Persuasion

Personal Change

Flexitarian or Very Vegan?

Talk the Walk

Recommended Resource Groups

Farm Sanctuary

Other Animal Sanctuaries I Love

Mercy for Animals

Compassion Over Killing

PETA and PETA2

In Defense of Animals

The Humane Society of the United States

Health

Environment

Outside of the USA

International

For Your Body and Soul

And Finally, MEDIA!

Notes

Index

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher