Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism
As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of "street level" activists—not academics, journalists or vegan chefs—are rarely heard.

This volume broadens animal liberation dialogues by offering the arguments, challenges, inspiration and narratives of grassroots activists. The essays show what animal advocacy looks like from a collective of individuals living in and around Minnesota's Twin Cities; the essayists, however, write of issues, both personal and political, that resound on a global scale. This collection provides a platform for rank and file activists to explain why and how they dedicate their time and what is being done for animals on a local level that can translate to global efforts to end animal exploitation.

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Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism
As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of "street level" activists—not academics, journalists or vegan chefs—are rarely heard.

This volume broadens animal liberation dialogues by offering the arguments, challenges, inspiration and narratives of grassroots activists. The essays show what animal advocacy looks like from a collective of individuals living in and around Minnesota's Twin Cities; the essayists, however, write of issues, both personal and political, that resound on a global scale. This collection provides a platform for rank and file activists to explain why and how they dedicate their time and what is being done for animals on a local level that can translate to global efforts to end animal exploitation.

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Overview

As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through the rise of veganism, academic disciplines devoted to animal issues, and mainstream critiques of factory farms. Yet as the dialogues, debates and books continue to grow, the voices of "street level" activists—not academics, journalists or vegan chefs—are rarely heard.

This volume broadens animal liberation dialogues by offering the arguments, challenges, inspiration and narratives of grassroots activists. The essays show what animal advocacy looks like from a collective of individuals living in and around Minnesota's Twin Cities; the essayists, however, write of issues, both personal and political, that resound on a global scale. This collection provides a platform for rank and file activists to explain why and how they dedicate their time and what is being done for animals on a local level that can translate to global efforts to end animal exploitation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786465750
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 02/14/2013
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kim Socha is an animal liberation advocate who sits on the boards of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the Animal Rights Coalition. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sarahjane Blum, co-founder of gourmetcruelty.com and board member of Support Vegans in the Prison System and New York City’s Empty Cages Collective, lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Preface Sarahjane Blum 1

Introduction: Hallway Conversations on Animal Liberation and Veganism Kim Socha 3

Section I Theory for Praxis

Turning Our Heads: The "See No Evil" Dilemma Dallas Rising 11

Anti-Capitalism and Abolitionism Travis Elise 22

"Just tell the truth": A Polemic on the Value of Radical Activism Kim Socha 44

Literary Analysis for Animal Liberation: Stephen King's Animal Kingdom Patrick McAleer 66

Section II Veganism in Action

Vegan Parenting: Navigating and Negating Speciesist Media Al Nowatzki 89

On Cheese, Motherhood and Everyday Activism Chelsea Youngquist Hassler 112

Till Vegan Do Us Part? Personal Change, Interpersonal Relationships and Divorce Elizabeth Cook 129

Section III Narratives of Change

Introducing Speciesism to the Rescue Community Melissa E. Maaske 139

Tales of an Animal Liberationist Dallas Rising 155

An Oral History of the Animal Rights Coalition: Thirty Years of Grassroots Activism Mary Britton Clouse Charlotte Cozzetto Heidi Greger Vonnie Thomasberg 175

Section IV Moving Toward Revolution

Killing Them Softly: Marketing a Movement, Marketing Meat M. Ryan Leitch 191

How "Humane" Labels Harm Chickens: Why Our Focus as Advocates Should Be Egg-Free Diets, Not Cage-Free Eggs Melissa Swanson 204

The "Dreaded Comparisons" and Speciesism: Leveling the Hierarchy of Suffering Kim Socha 223

Animal Enterprise Acts and the Prosecution of the "SHAC 7": An Insider's Perspective Aaron Zellhoefer 241

Some Things Get Better, Some Get Worse: On Being Scared, Being Around, and Trying to Be Kind Sarahjane Blum 255

Afterword: Flower Power pattrice jones 263

About the Contributors 281

Index 283

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