Speaking Up for Animals
Dr. lisa kemmerer
ISBN: 978-1612050881
Publisher: Routledge, 2012
Overview
Speaking Up for Animals tells the stories of women who drive the strong and growing movement to bring change for animals. From the sufferings of factory farms and slaughterhouses to beaches with oil-slogged gulls, these women show up to rescue “dancing” bears, chickens, and pinnipeds along the winding path from mainstream to hard-core animal activist. Speaking Up for Animals is filled with passion and sensitivity, anger and hope, and above all else, the resilience and dedication of the women who work to save and protect animals.
Authors in Speaking Up for Animals live and work in Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Lebanon, India, Canada, and Australia; they include Indian, Lebanese, Malaysian, American, African-American, and Latino activists; they are educators, writers, researchers, musicians, undercover investigators, artists, scholars, and lawyers—and each of these women has but one cause: They are dedicated to helping animals.
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