Animal Rights

Shunail Tejani

Engl 135_ACC

Prof. Hart

Feb 02 2012

Animal Rights!

An Annotated Bibliography

Singer, P. (1975) Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement. HarperCollins Publishers 2-23.

This revolutionary work by author Peter Singer, ignited a spark in human with this book. This book exposes human behavior against non-human animals and “factory farms”. Author undergoes the abuse and torture these farm animals went through in the era of 70s and prior and how it is not only bad for animals but it also harms who eat their meat. This is when vegetarian movement got in the form and many groups raised their voices against livestock and its welfare. This book goes over how chickens are confined in cages and cages being stacked and usage of high doses of antibiotics on animals and so forth. Very eye opening and briefly written masterpiece.

Masson, J. (2003) The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals. New York: Ballantine Books 52-68

This book is about a journey of the author around the world, discovering the lives of farm animals and the treatment they go through in the process in different parts of world. Author starts up with a mellow tone than gets aggressively emotional while writing against meat-eaters. The author plays as an orator of these farm animals and shares the emotional stories of these non-speaking creatures without going into gory details of them being butchered, yet get readers connected to these species.

Coleman, G & Hemsworth, P.H. (2010) Human–Livestock Interactions : The Stockperson and the Productivity of Intensively Farmed Animals (2nd Edition). CABI Publishing. 22-40. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

Explores the areas where the interactions of human with the farm animal resulting their behavior and psychological changes. Later on it elaborates on the performance and the productivity of these livestock and the effects of the nutrition and sheltering on the farm...