Empty Cages

Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights

De: Tom Regan, Jeffery Moussaieff Masson - foreword

Narrado por: Jennifer Pickens

Bloomsbury presents Empty Cages by Tom Regan, read by Jennifer Pickens.

Described by Jeffrey Masson as "the single best introduction to animal rights ever written," this new book by Tom Regan will structure the animal rights debate for generations to come. In a style at once simple and elegant, Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of "humane treatment" favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty. Written by the leading philosophical spokesperson for animal rights, Tom Regan's shocking exposé of animal abuse makes an essential and lasting contribution that will significantly impact the history of animal rights advocacy in America.©2005 Tom Regan, Jeffery Moussaieff Masson (P)2005 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

Every veterinarian should read Tom Regan's Empty Cages, and every student of veterinary medicine should be required to read it. This book is important to the future integrity of our profession." (Jean Greek, DVM, DACVD, co-author of Specious Science)

Empty Cages will do for the animal rights movement what Silent Spring did for the environmental movement. (Howard Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy)

If you are only going to read one book about animal rights, this is the one to read. (Ray Greek, M.D., co-author of Specious Science)

Tom Regan delivers a searing indictment of the way we treat animals in the world we have made for ourselves, and presents a trenchant case that animals have or should have rights in the same way that human beings have. (J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature)

The book you are holding in your hands is, in my estimation, the single best introduction to the topic of animal rights ever written. (Jeffery Moussaieff Masson)

Animal factory farmers hide behind such phrases as 'humane treatment' and 'responsible care.' Tom Regan gently but honestly takes you into the hog and chicken barns, onto the cattle feedlots; after that, it is up to you. This thoughtful book deserves a wide readership. (Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author of Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry (2000))

Tom Regan's Empty Cages is for everyone who cares about animals: It will inform those new to animal advocacy, inspire those already on the front lines, and empower both. This book will define the future vitality and growth of the animal rights movement for generations to come. If you want the full story about animal rights, you must read Empty Cages. (Kim Stallwood, president, Institute for Animals and Society)

This is the book that will inspire the next wave of animal rights activism. And the next wave after that one. (Gary Kowalski, author, The Bible According to Noah and Science and the Search for God)

Empty Cages is among the most important books ever written on the great subject of how we humans treat and relate to animals. A rare and special book that can help us to awaken to our humanity. (John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America and The Food Revolution)

Empty Cages' greatest contribution is the frank assessment of the current state of the movement and the blueprint for 'Moving Forward.' . . . Empty Cages was also an enjoyable read. (Robert Leonard)