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Eating Earth - Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice (Hardcover): Lisa Kemmerer Eating Earth - Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice (Hardcover)
Lisa Kemmerer
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy. The first chapter (animal agriculture) examines greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, manure and dead zones, freshwater depletion, deforestation, predator control, land and useincluding the ranching industries public lands subsidies. Chapter two first examines whether or not the consumption of fish is healthy and outlines morally relevant aspects of fish physiology, then scrutinizes the fishing industry, documenting the silent collapse of ocean ecosystems and calling attention to the indiscriminate nature of hooks and nets, including the problem of bycatch and what this means for endangered species and fragile seascapes. Chapter three outlines the historic link between the U. S. Government, wildlife management, and hunters, then systematically unravels common beliefs about sport hunting, such as the belief that hunters are essential to wildlife conservation, that contemporary hunting qualifies as a tradition, and that hunting is merciful, economical, or rooted in fair chase. At the end of each chapter, Kemmerer examines possible solutions to problems presented, such as sustainable meats, organic and local, grass fed, aquaculture, new fishing technologies, and enhanced regulations. Eating Earth offers a concise examination of the environmental effects of dietary choice, clearly presenting the many reasons why dietary choice ought to be front and center for environmentalists. Kemmerers writing, supported by nearly 80 graphs and summary slides, is clear, straightforward, and punctuated with wry humor.

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Hardcover): Tom L. Beauchamp, R. G. Frey The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Hardcover)
Tom L. Beauchamp, R. G. Frey
R5,915 Discovery Miles 59 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of human uses of animals. This literature had a primary focus on discussion of animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the nature and significance of species, and a number of practical problems. This Oxford Handbook is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems. Several chapters in this volume explore matters that have never previously been examined by philosophers.
The authors of the thirty-five chapters come from a diverse set of philosophical interests in the History of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Biology, the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, the Philosophy of Language, Ethical Theory, and Practical Ethics. They explore many theoretical issues about animal minds and an array of practical concerns about animal products, farm animals, hunting, circuses, zoos, the entertainment industry, safety-testing on animals, the status and moral significance of species, environmental ethics, the nature and significance of the minds of animals, and so on. They also investigate what the future may be expected to bring in the way of new scientific developments and new moral problems.
This book of original essays is the most comprehensive single volume ever published on animal minds and the ethics of our use of animals.

Dogs, Owners of the City (Hardcover): Laura Lavayen Dogs, Owners of the City (Hardcover)
Laura Lavayen
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There may be a town called Santa Catalina, but the one in this book is creation of the author. What is real and happens all over the world is the problem of dogs living on the street. They, like human beings, suffer and their life is a bit similar to the homeless people. This is not a beautiful picture and many turn to look the other way as if not looking would avoid feelings of remorse for not trying to help them. The truth is that many problems could be prevented if we all worked together to help those beings that, for various reasons, end up living without a roof over their heads. We all try to live a life without hardship, however there are many reasons that lead us to failure and we use all necessary means to not fall too low. But dogs, after being domesticated and living for many years with human beings, have learned to depend on them for survival and deserve to live with respect.

My Life with Shelter Dogs (Hardcover): John Huh My Life with Shelter Dogs (Hardcover)
John Huh
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Screening the Nonhuman - Representations of Animal Others in the Media (Hardcover): Amber E. George, J.L. Schatz Screening the Nonhuman - Representations of Animal Others in the Media (Hardcover)
Amber E. George, J.L. Schatz; Contributions by Joseph Anderton, Michael Atkinson, Fernando Pagnoni Berns, …
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals can change the way humans relate to non/humans. Our hope is for humans to generate more ethical relationships with non/humans, ultimately mediating reality both in terms of fiction and non-fiction. To achieve this end, film, television, advertisements, and social media are analyzed through an intersectional lens. But the book doesn't stop here. Each author creates counter-representational strategies that promise to unweave the assumptions that have led to the mistreatment of humans and non/humans alike.

Arguments about Animal Ethics (Hardcover, New): Greg Goodale, Jason Edward Black Arguments about Animal Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Greg Goodale, Jason Edward Black; Contributions by Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Renee S. Besel, Richard D. Besel, …
R4,061 R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Save R1,203 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors examine how stakeholders persuade or fail to persuade audiences about the ethics of animal rights or the value of using animals. The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics, such as the campaigns waged by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (including the sexy vegetarian and nude campaigns), greyhound activists, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, food manufacturers, and the biomedical research industry, as well as communication across the human-nonhuman animal boundary and the failure of the animal rights movement to protest research into genetically modifying living beings. Arguments about Animal Ethics' insightful analysis of the animal rights movement will appeal to communication scholars, as well as those interested in social change.

Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization - Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication (Paperback):... Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization - Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication (Paperback)
Cheryl S. Rosenfeld, Frauke Hoffmann
R2,942 Discovery Miles 29 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization: Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication examines the underpinning neuroendocrine (NE) mechanisms that drive animal communication across taxa. Written by international subject experts, the book focuses on the importance of animal communication in survival and reproduction at an individual and species level, and the impact that increased production and accumulation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can have on these regulatory processes. This book discusses sound production, perception, processing, and response across a range of animals. This includes insects, fish, bats, birds, nonhuman primates, infant humans, and many others. Some chapters analyze how neuroactive substances, endocrine control, and chemical pollution affect the physiology of the animal's perceptive and sound-producing organs, as well as their auditory and vocal receptors and pathways. Other chapters address the recent approaches governments have taken to protect against the endocrine disruption of animal (vocal) behaviors. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students seeking first-rate material on neuroendocrinological effects on animal behavior and communication.

Horse Pasture Management (Paperback, 2nd edition): Paul H. Sharpe Horse Pasture Management (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Paul H. Sharpe
R2,941 R2,674 Discovery Miles 26 740 Save R267 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Horse Pasture Management, Second Edition provides updated coverage on strategies for managing behavior, grouping, environments and feeding needs of grazing horses. Sections cover the structure, function and identification of forages, continuing into nutritional value of pasture plants. Management of soil, the function of a pasture ecosystem and management of plants in a pasture is covered next, followed by forage yield determination, horse grazing behavior, feed choices of horses, management of grazing horses, and how to calculate how many horses should be grazing relative to land size. Advantages of grazing more than one species of animal are described. Management of hay and silage are included since year-round grazing is not possible on many horse farms. Several chapters deal with interactions of a horse farm with the environment, including climate and weather and other living things. The book also covers strategies for managing manure, erosion, and water quality. It is ideal for researchers, scientists and students involved in animal science, specifically equine studies. Agriculturists, equine managers and veterinarians will also find this book useful.

Power and Protest - Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Society (Hardcover): Lori Williamson Power and Protest - Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Society (Hardcover)
Lori Williamson
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), Anglo-Irish reformer, feminist, and anti-vivisectionist Lori Williamson builds on original research, Cobbe's autobiography, and the work of later historians to analyze Cobbe's life as well as her ideological outlook.

A workhouse visitor, Cobbe campaigned strenuously against those in power for rights of women, the poor and of animals. A prominent critic of the Poor Law, she was also the first person to draw up a petition to control cruelty to animals. Using Cobbe's thoughts and activities as a catalyst, Power and Protest explores the issues of protest, reform, hierarchy, power, and gender, the relationship between men and women, humans and animals, and includes important work on pressure-group dynamics.

Given its wide-ranging scope, depiction of nineteenth-century British society and culture, and its exploration of the symbiotic relationships between ideology and the dynamics of protest, Power and Protest will attract students of history, social policy, and gender. Its emphasis on anti-vivisection activity provides a powerful basis for understanding power relations and the historical concept of rights.

Los Duenos de La Ciudad (English, Spanish, Hardcover): Laura Lavayn, Laura Lavayen Los Duenos de La Ciudad (English, Spanish, Hardcover)
Laura Lavayn, Laura Lavayen
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wild Wisdom - A Warthog's Tale (Hardcover): Laurada Byers Wild Wisdom - A Warthog's Tale (Hardcover)
Laurada Byers; Contributions by Natalie Hays Stewart; Designed by Stewart Williams
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Skinz (Hardcover): Michael D. Stevens Skinz (Hardcover)
Michael D. Stevens
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Fourth Seal ...and when I had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say "Come and see," And I looked and behold a running pale dead animal. And the name of he who sat on the animal ...was Death, and Hell followed ...them. And power was given unto them over the four parts of the earth, to kill with the beasts of the earth ...-From the Book of Revelation Animals that have been skinned for their furs are coming back to life and skinning the people wearing their furs! Animals have been hunted and killed for thousands of years. They were part of God's food chain and kept everyone alive. For the last one hundred years, furs have become charmingly fashionable; and now animals are skinned for just their furs. Their bloody remains and bodies are left to rot. Skinz follows the lives and family stories of furry animals that ultimately end up being skinned for their pelts to create coats for undeserving humans. Integrating real facts with their stories, Stevens paints a realistic picture of the torture that the animals experience in the creation of these garments. Now it's the animals' turn to repay mankind ...and they're pissed!

Beyond Animal Rights - Food, Pets and Ethics (Hardcover, New): Tony Milligan Beyond Animal Rights - Food, Pets and Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Tony Milligan
R3,537 Discovery Miles 35 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Issues to do with animal ethics remain at the heart of public debate. In Beyond Animal Rights, Tony Milligan goes beyond standard discussions of animal ethics to explore the ways in which we personally relate to other creatures through our diet, as pet owners and as beneficiaries of experimentation. The book connects with our duty to act and considers why previous discussions have failed to result in a change in the way that we live our lives. The author asks a crucial question: what sort of people do we have to become if we are to sufficiently improve the ways in which we relate to the non-human? Appealing to both consequences and character, he argues that no improvement will be sufficient if it fails to set humans on a path towards a tolerable and sustainable future. Focussing on our direct relations to the animals we connect with the book offers guidance on all the relevant issues, including veganism and vegetarianism, the organic movement, pet ownership, and animal experimentation.

Moral Awareness and Animal Welfare (Hardcover): David Lamb Moral Awareness and Animal Welfare (Hardcover)
David Lamb
R2,526 Discovery Miles 25 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is written for researchers, students and professionals in areas including animal welfare ethics, animal behaviourists, veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare counsellors, animal trainers, and professionals and volunteers with an interest in animal welfare ethics. Several of the main areas of ethical inquiry concerning animals are introduced, explained and analysed. Inquiries also cover cultural traditions affecting the well being of animals, and discussions concerning the role of aesthetics in practices relevant to the welfare of animals. Unlike many books which feature arguments about ethical theories this book includes elements of personal experience with animals. Although the author is an academic teaching within a university structure, he is also a professional animal trainer.

Embracing Landscape - Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia (Hardcover): Selcen Kucukustel Embracing Landscape - Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia (Hardcover)
Selcen Kucukustel
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.

Eating and Believing - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology (Hardcover): David Grumett, Rachel Muers Eating and Believing - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology (Hardcover)
David Grumett, Rachel Muers
R5,275 Discovery Miles 52 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a collaborative volume on the concept of modern vegetarianism and the relationships between people's beliefs and food practices.What are the links between people's beliefs and the foods they choose to eat? In the modern Western world, dietary choices are a topic of ethical and political debate, but how can centuries of Christian thought and practice also inform them? And how do reasons for abstaining from particular foods in the modern world compare with earlier ones? This book will shed new light on modern vegetarianism and related forms of dietary choice by situating them in the context of historic Christian practice. It will show how the theological significance of embodied practice may be retrieved and reconceived in the present day.Food and diet is a neglected area of Christian theology, and Christianity is conspicuous among the modern world's religions in having few dietary rules or customs. Yet historically, food and the practices surrounding it have significantly shaped Christian lives and identities. This collection, prepared collaboratively, includes contributions on the relationship between Christian beliefs and food practices in specific historical contexts. It considers the relationship between eating and believing from non-Christian perspectives that have in turn shaped Christian attitudes and practices. It also examines ethical arguments about vegetarianism and their significance for emerging Christian theologies of food.

BrodyMonster - A Perfectionist and the World's Most Imperfect Terrier (Hardcover): Liz Maritz BrodyMonster - A Perfectionist and the World's Most Imperfect Terrier (Hardcover)
Liz Maritz
R569 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flush - A Biography (Hardcover): Virginia Woolf Flush - A Biography (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Animal Rights Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Kai Horsthemke Animal Rights Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Kai Horsthemke
R3,152 Discovery Miles 31 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education. It examines key trends in this regard, including environmental education, humane education, posthumanist education, ecopedagogy, critical animal pedagogy, critical animal studies, animal standpoint theory, and vegan education. The book discusses animal minds and interests, and how animals have been accommodated in moral theory. Further, it investigates whether anti-racist and anti-sexist education logically entail anti-speciesist education and closes by proposing animal rights education as a viable and sound alternative, a pedagogy that does justice not only to animals in general and as species, but also to individual animals. If animal rights education is philosophically and educationally meaningful, then it can arguably offer a powerful pedagogical tool, and facilitate lasting pro-animal changes.

Brood (Paperback): Jackie Polzin Brood (Paperback)
Jackie Polzin
R285 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler will devour it.' - Daily Mirror Darkly witty, deeply moving - Jackie Polzin's Brood is a startlingly original debut novel about motherhood, marriage and grief, full of sorrow, joy and unrelenting hope. Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails - and all the while struggling to confront her own recent loss. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. 'Full of surprise, humor, grief, and wisdom.' - Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'The most vibrant and compelling slice of life I've been privy to in a great while.' - Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had 'Splendidly unsentimental, quirky, witty, smart and a complete one-off.' - Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures

Women and the Animal Rights Movement (Hardcover, New): Emily Gaarder Women and the Animal Rights Movement (Hardcover, New)
Emily Gaarder
R2,939 R2,219 Discovery Miles 22 190 Save R720 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Animal rights is one of the fastest growing social movements today. Women greatly outnumber men as activists, yet surprisingly, little has been written about the importance and impact of gender on the movement. Women and the Animal Rights Movement combats stereotypes of women activists as mere sentimentalists by exploring the political and moral character of their advocacy on behalf of animals. Emily Gaarder analyzes the politics of gender in the movement, incorporating in-depth interviews with women and participant observation of animal rights organizations, conferences, and protests to describe struggles over divisions of labor and leadership. Controversies over PETA advertising campaigns that rely on women's sexuality to ""sell"" animal rights illustrate how female crusaders are asked to prioritize the cause of animals above all else. Gaarder underscores the importance of a paradigm shift in the animal liberation movement, one that seeks a more integrated vision of animal rights that connects universally to other issues--gender, race, economics, and the environment--highlighting that many women activists recognize and are motivated by the connection between the oppression of animals and other social injustices.

Animal Rights: The Changing Debate (Hardcover, New): Robert Garner Animal Rights: The Changing Debate (Hardcover, New)
Robert Garner
R3,088 Discovery Miles 30 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Do animals have rights and, if so, what exactly are they? Further, how do these rights relate to human rights? These questions have long bedeviled scientists, philosophers, and animal advocates and today remain as contested as ever.

Combining the writings of leading academics and activists such as Peter Singer and Michael W. Fox, this anthology examines the development of animal rights discourse over the past quarter century to anticipate the future of the debate. Touching on every aspect of human-animal relations, from agriculture and animal experimentation to the animal rights movement in the United States and abroad, the contributors both question and affirm the utility of the concept of rights. Informing this volume is the belief that, regardless of where one stands on the issues of animal rights, it is simply indisputable that how we perceive and treat animals is fundamentally and inextricably related to how we define ourselves.

Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Anna Bonus Kingsford Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Anna Bonus Kingsford
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain - A Social History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): A W H Bates Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain - A Social History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
A W H Bates
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profession. Christian anti-cruelty organizations took up the cause out of concern that callousness among the professional classes would have a demoralizing effect on the rest of society. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the influence of transcendentalism, Eastern religions and the spiritual revival led new age social reformers to champion a more holistic approach to science, and dismiss reliance on vivisection as a materialistic oversimplification. In response, scientists claimed it was necessary to remain objective and unemotional in order to perform the experiments necessary for medical progress.

A Systems Biology Approach to Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathways for Risk Assessment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Natalia... A Systems Biology Approach to Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathways for Risk Assessment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Natalia Garcia-Reyero, Cheryl Murphy
R6,858 Discovery Miles 68 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Social pressure to minimize the use of animal testing, the ever-increasing concern on animal welfare, and the need for more human-relevant and more predictive toxicity tests are some of the drivers for new approaches to chemical screening. This book focuses on The Adverse Outcome Pathway, an analytical construct that describes a sequential chain of causally linked events at different levels of biological organization that lead to an adverse health or ecotoxicological effect. While past efforts have focused on toxicological pathway-based vision for human and ecological health assessment relying on in vitro systems and predictive models, The Adverse Outcome Pathway framework provides a simplified and structured way to organize toxicological information. Within the book, a systems biology approach supplies the tools to infer, link, and quantify the molecular initiating events and the key events and key event relationships leading to adverse outcomes. The advancement of these tools is crucial for the successful implementation of AOPs for regulatory purposes.

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