Bibliograph

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy, the human cost of the animal rights movement, Wesley J. Smith

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A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy, the human cost of the animal rights movement, Wesley J. Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

349251086

Responsibility statement

Wesley J. Smith

Sub title

the human cost of the animal rights movement

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Foreword / by Dean Koontz -- Introduction -- Part I: "For the animals" -- Animal advocacy isn't what it used to be -- "All animals are equal" -- Animals are people too -- Let it begin with apes -- Here comes the judge -- The Silver Spring monkey case -- The death of a thousand cuts -- Proselytizing children -- Part II: By any means necessary -- Advocating terror -- Tertiary targeting -- Praising with faith condemnation -- Murder they wrote? -- Part III: For the people -- Animal rights vs. medical research -- Our system of animal research -- Ensuring the proper care of lab animals -- Meat is not murder -- Fur, hunting, and zoos -- The importance of being human

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