No animals were harmed : the controversial line between entertainment and abuse / Peter Laufer.
The reader travels with Laufer as he encounters fascinating people and places, and as he ponders the ethical questions that arise from his quest.
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| Language: | English |
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Guilford, Conn. :
Lyons Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 258 pages ; 24 cm |
| Variant Title: |
Controversial line between entertainment and abuse. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Swim with dolphins!
- Whale as sushi
- Ted Nugent is my blood brother
- Searching for a Louisiana cockfight
- Cockfighting as sport
- Destroying the village to save it
- The charge of an animal rights brigade
- The cowardice of canned hunts
- Infiltrating cockfights
- Art as animal abuse
- Who would abuse a swan?
- The self-taught lion tamer
- Yes, he really does stick his head in the mouth of a lion
- Dead chickens without a fight
- The nemesis of Cajun cockfighters
- From Central Park horse carriages to ants on the kitchen counter
- Who is abusing whom?
- Saving chickens
- Dominion over every creeping thing that creepeth
- Sea turtle cowboy boots
- Cockfight first responders
- Cricket fighting for science
- A Jordanian princess changes Arabian horses mid-life
- A jailhouse meeting with a militant vegan
- Stoic arson victims reopen their sheepskin business
- Humane meat
- Dairy cow abuse
- The animal lawyer
- Vivisection dissected
- What's right and what's wrong?
- Sit, stay, roll over
- Fighting cocks rescued and euthanized
- The case for a kill-it-yourself dinner
- Las Vegas epiphany
- Epilogue.