From the Book - First edition.
Pt. I: A special bond. Ties that bond
Pet keeping through the ages
Domesticated animals: "bonded to the house"
Animal sacrifice: "the perfect gift"
Animal welfare and the "great republic of the future"
The mismeasure of animals
Thinking and feeling: shared capacities
Denying animal intelligence
Lifesaving dolphins and dogs, altruistic elephants, and other remarkable animals
The emotional lives of animals
Pt. II: The betrayal of the bond. A message from Hallmark: exposing factory farming
The slaughterhouse next door: inside a California meat plant
Hypocrisy of "happy cows"
Endless denials: the challenge of reform
"The new agriculture": the ways of industrial farming
"Meat science": turkeys who can't walk, pigs who can't move, and other victims of agribusiness
Stirring the silent majority
A culture of cruelty: animal fighting in America
Bad newz on moonlight road: dogfighting comes out of the shadows
Michael Vick and the contradiction of cruelty
Blood sport through the ages
Katrina and the human-animal bond
In the name of mercy: animal shelters and the problem of euthanasia
Factory farms for dogs: the tragedy of puppy mills
AKC and "the maintenance of purity"
Nothing fancy: the costs of reckless breeding
Unfaithful stewards: betraying Yellowstone's Bison
Killing and longing: the lessons of TR
Era of rational slaughter
"Let's kill them all": the attack on Alaska's wolves
"Garbaging for bears": commercial hunting and contemptible conduct
Face of innocence and the shame of Canada
Pt. III: Building a humane world. Cruelty and its defenders
The moral scale and humane living
Rhetorical camouflage: debating opponents of animal protection
Collateral damage and the NRA
"The agro-industrial complex": harvesting subsidies
"The rising plague" and the veterinary oath
"Creative destruction" and living capital
Twenty-first-century science
Innovation and the spark of life
Appendix: Fifty ways to help animals.
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