For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States

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Ohio University Press, 25‏/05‏/2006 - 368 من الصفحات

Animal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the middle, between endorsement and rejection, as they struggle with the profound moral, philosophical, and legal questions provoked by the debate. Today, thousands of organizations lobby, agitate, and educate the public on issues concerning the rights and treatment of nonhumans.

For the Prevention of Cruelty is the first history of organized advocacy on behalf of animals in the United States to appear in nearly a half century. Diane Beers demonstrates how the cause has shaped and reshaped itself as it has evolved within the broader social context of the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society.

Until now, the legacy of the movement in the United States has not been examined. Few Americans today perceive either the companionship or the consumption of animals in the same manner as did earlier generations. Moreover, powerful and lingering bonds connect the seemingly disparate American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of the nineteenth century and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals of today. For the Prevention of Cruelty tells an intriguing and important story that reveals society’s often changing relationship with animals through the lens of those who struggled to shepherd the public toward a greater compassion.

 

المحتوى

1 Resurrecting the Voice
1
2 A Movement Takes Shape
19
3 Leaders and Followers
39
4 The Voice of the Voiceless
59
5 Reaching Out to the Mainstream
91
6 Our Most Strenuous Protest
119
7 The Road to Liberation
147
Epilogue
197
Notes
203
Bibliography
267
Index
295
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الصفحة 19 - No man shall exercise any Tirranny or Crueltie towards any bruite Creature which are usuallie kept for mans use.
الصفحة 33 - I know that physiology cannot possibly progress except by means of experiments on living animals, and I feel the deepest conviction that he who retards the progress of physiology commits a crime against mankind.
الصفحة 30 - Nevertheless the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.
الصفحة 21 - But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer'?

نبذة عن المؤلف (2006)

Diane L. Beers is an associate professor of history at Holyoke Community College, where she teaches social, environmental, and African American history.

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