Capers in the Churchyard PDF Download

Author: Lee Hall
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ISBN: 9780976915911
Category : Animal rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This book'¿¿s unusual title recalls a six-year campaign to end the breeding of guinea pigs at an English farm; the cover depicts the churchyard where the body of the guinea pig farmer's mother-in-law was stolen during a pressure campaign. Lee Hall takes militancy as a starting point to assess a movement that is alternately coercive or co-opted (through organizations that tout humane farming advancements). Either way, the root problem is sidestepped: Militancy doesn'¿¿t address demand, and handling reform doesn'¿¿t slow the expansion of agribusiness that displaces nature (witness wild horses being rounded up and removed from land desired by ranchers). Rather than focusing on pain -- a key survival mechanism that industrialists would gladly breed out of animals -- this book presses the question of whether animals should be used at all. In the process, various advocacy styles are assessed for their impact on society, activists themselves, and the law. Psychologist Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson offers a foreword commending Hall for advancing animal-rights thinking, insisting that effective advocacy does not force change, but shifts the mental ground people stand on, inspires epiphany, and moves things closer to how they ought to be.The book's call -- despite, as reviewer Eric Prescott writes, the difficulty some may have in heeding it -- could focus a scattered and divided population of advocates to effectively drive a vital mission for the future of Earth'¿¿s conscious life.