ABSTRACT

Speaking Up for Animals highlights eighteen courageous members of a growing international animal advocacy movement that is overwhelmingly powered by women. These remarkable activists take us with them as they lift factory farmed chickens and cows from quagmires of filth, free gigantic sea lions caught in fishing gear and secure undercover footage of dogs crying for mercy on stainless steel vivisection tables. In the process, these dedicated women expose the many ways that most of us are complicit in the suffering and exploitation of animals, and creatively suggest a variety of ways in which we might help bring change.

chapter |34 pages

Introduction

part |71 pages

Pondering What I Put in My Mouth

chapter |8 pages

Slaughtergate

Investigating Nonenforcement of Farmed Animal Laws

chapter |6 pages

The Art of Love

part |41 pages

Working for Wildlife

chapter |7 pages

Pinnipeds in Peril

Marine Mammal Rescue

chapter |9 pages

A Whole New World

Rescue and Re-Education in Southeast Asia

part |47 pages

Potpourri—From Dancing Bears to Undercover Investigation