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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Diet and the upper and lower primates -- Having a life span is not the same as having a life -- Rich, not famous, and pushing drugs -- In the end the coyote wins -- Reaping drought by design -- If you mostly make crap, everywhere looks like your toilet -- Hurricane husbandry -- A convoy 150 years long -- Rendered insensible in the end. |
| Summary |
"Peter Brandt, a litigator at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has been at the forefront of some of the toughest cases of animal abuse in the last ten years-including supervising a team of lawyers working to protect the interests of farm animals. In this revelatory and often surprisingly funny memoir-cum-manifesto, Brandt describes his growing awareness of the extent of the cruelty of animals in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (a.k.a. factory farms), and the manifold harms to human health, local communities, and the environment for those who live near them. He shows how it's a world of enormous suffering, sustained by deliberate secrecy and misinformation, and reeking of corruption and lagoons full of ordure. Brandt details his realization of intensive animal farming's further costs to wild creatures and their habitats, as well as clean water and clean air, and demonstrates how curbing animal agriculture is one of the few ways to make an immediate positive difference to climate change"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cause lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Cause lawyers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Lawyers. |
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Animal industry -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Animal industry -- Law and legislation. |
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Animal welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Animal welfare -- Law and legislation. |
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brandt, Peter (Lawyer). Indefensible Brooklyn, New York : Lantern Publishing & Media, [2020?] 9781590566299 (DLC) 2020022486 |
| ISBN |
1590566300 |
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9781590566305 (electronic book) |
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9781590566299 (paperback) |
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