Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: Sanctuary 1
Part I A Special Bond
1 The Ties that Bond 21
The Biochemistry of the Bond 24
Pet Keeping Through the Ages 30
Domesticated Animals: "Bonded to the House" 33
Animal Sacrifice: "The Perfect Gift" 40
Animal Welfare and the "Great Republic of the Future" 43
Self-Evident Truths 48
2 The Mismeasure of Animals 54
Thinking and Feeling: Shared Capacities 56
Denying Animal Intelligence 59
Signs of Change 66
Lifesaving Dolphins and Dogs, Altruistic Elephants, and Other Remarkable Animals 71
The Emotional Lives of Animals 79
Part II The Betrayal of the Bond
3 A Message From Hallmark: Exposing Factory Farming 91
The Slaughterhouse Next Door: Inside a California Meat Plant 94
The Hypocrisy of "Happy Cows" 105
Endless Denials: The Challenge of Reform 114
"The New Agriculture": The Ways of Industrial Farming 119
"Meat Science": Turkeys Who Can't Walk, Pigs Who Can't Move, and Other Victims of Agribusiness 125
Stirring the Silent Majority 130
4 A Culture of Cruelty: Animal Fighting in America 135
Bad Newz on Moonlight Road: Dogfighting Comes Out of the Shadows 137
Michael Vick and the Contradiction of Cruelty 145
Blood Sport Through the Ages 153
"The Feathered Warrior" 157
"I Won't Disappoint You" 172
5 For the Love of Pets 177
Katrina and the Human-Animal Bond 180
The Animals in Our Lives 190
In the Name of Mercy: Animal Shelters and the Problem of Euthanasia 196
Factory Farms for Dogs: The Tragedy of Puppy Mills 204
The AKC and "the Maintenance of Purity" 209
Nothing Fancy: The Costs of Reckless Breeding 217
6 The Cull of the Wild 222
Unfaithful Stewards: Betraying Yellowstone's Bison 225
Killing and Longing: The Lessons of TR 233
The Era of Rational Slaughter 239
"Let's Kill them All": The Attack on Alaska's Wolves 243
"Garbagingfor Bears": Commercial Hunting and Contemptible Conduct 248
The Face of Innocence and the Shame of Canada 253
Part III Building a Humane World
7 Cruelty and its Defenders 269
The Moral Scale and Humane Living 272
Rhetorical Camouflage: Debating Opponents of Animal Protection 277
Collateral Damage and the NRA 284
"The Agro-Industrial Complex": Harvesting Subsidies 294
"The Rising Plague" and the Veterinary Oath 302
8 The Humane Economy 312
"Creative Destruction" and Living Capital 314
Wild Neighbors 326
Chemistry and Compassion 333
Twenty-First-Century Science 338
Innovation and the Spark of Life 344
Appendix: Fifty Ways to Help Animals 351
Acknowledgments 357
Notes 363
Index 409