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
If we detest and try to prevent male control over our bodies—how can we turn away from these much more helpless, and much more cruelly exploited fellow females, let alone contribute to their suffering and premature death?”
- Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
Patty Mark . . . and a handful of fellow activists enter a factory farm in the wee hours of the morning and “steal” some gravely ill and dying hens—and they videotape their crime. They hand the evidence over to the media, and their illegal rescue is broadcast to the general public, exposing the horrors of factory farming to citizens relaxing in soft chairs after a hard day at work . . . simultaneously exposing their own “illegal” acts.
- Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
We are the ones who are in power. We are the ones who have the power to change our consumer habits. We are the ones who either put our money down for their lives or boycott animal products.”
- Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
Because of their sex, sows, cows, chickens, and turkeys are manipulated and exploited from motherless infancy to premature death, through a host of forced pregnancies and stolen offspring.”
- Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices