Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, & Sanctuary
Dr. lisa kemmerer
ISBN: 978-1607811534
Publisher: University of Utah, 2012
Overview
Primate People features undercover agents, scholars, and researchers, sanctuary founders and grassroots lobbyists fighting vivisection or seeking to protect vital habitat. Authors who work in Malaysia, Spain, Thailand, England, Wales, South Africa, Colombia, Denmark, the United States, and Indonesia writes of their work with baboons, woolly monkeys, capuchins, gibbons, gorillas, macaques, owl monkeys, lemurs, lorises, De Brazza’s monkeys, chimpanzees, and spider monkeys. Seasoned scholars, adventuresome volunteers, and undercover investigators introduce readers to the antics and pleasures, idiosyncrasies, sufferings and fears of nonhuman primates: a baboon caught in a snare, a chimp reluctant to trust humanity, and number 16162—a timid macaque trapped at a primate research lab who loved to play with mirrors but was never given so much as a proper name. Authors explain how we—any one of us—usually out of ignorance and sometimes in unexpected ways, endanger and harm these vulnerable individuals. And explain how each of us can help. Primate People vividly depicts the many reasons why these sensitive and endearing primates are at risk, while also demonstrating the power and importance of individual initiative and organized activism to bring much-needed change. Primate People is full of tenderness, courage, and hope.
Book Quotes
“Some of the world’s biggest killers (including heart disease, a number of common cancers, obesity, diabetes, and infections from pathogens such as E. coli) are more likely for those who consume flesh, diary, or eggs. Anymal agriculture is implicated in a number of additional serious and deadly medical concerns, including respiratory diseases, antibiotic resistance, and zoomorphic diseases—which are funded and furthered by those who buy anymal products, but which affect all human beings.”
- AMORE, Health Chapter
“In choosing our diet, we choose not only whether or not a pig, cow, sheep, or chicken will live a miserable life and face slaughter in their adolescence, but whether or not mothers will be allowed to raise their young, whether or not the sacred bond between young and their mothers will be respected and honored. . . . Only vegans refuse to participate in the suffering and death that defines anymal agriculture.”
- AMORE, Feminism Chapter
“Farmers burn fossil fuels to prepare the land, to plant, fertilize, harvest, and then to transport and store millions of tons of feedcrops. Anymal agriculture burns fossil fuels to transport herds and flocks to slaughter and then to move anymal products to shops and for cold storage. Anymal agriculture is also the largest source of human-induced methane, created and emitted into the environment by the decomposition of manure and the digestion process of billions of cattle, sheep, and goats birthed and raised as “food,” and human-induced nitrous oxide, which is created and emitted by the decomposition of manure and synthetic fertilizers made from the trillions of tons of manure produced on anymal farms”
- AMORE, Environment Chapter
“Perhaps more importantly (and rather obviously), 2000-year-old descriptions of ritual sacrifices that were performed before Jesus became the final sacrifice—abrogating the need for any further sacrifice—have nothing to do with eating a cheeseburger in the 21st century.”
- AMORE, Religion Chapter