LEADER 00000cam a2200625Mi 4500 001 ocn798534255 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040701.1 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 120709s2012 nyu ob 001 0 eng d 019 808346316 020 9781594036156|q(electronic book) 020 1594036152|q(electronic book) 020 |z1594033463|q(hardcover ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z9781594033469|q(hardcover ;|qalkaline paper) 020 |z9781594036149 035 (OCoLC)798534255|z(OCoLC)808346316 037 C5FEEA72-09AD-488F-AAE5-AD8C2F1F0476|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 EBLCP|beng|epn|cEBLCP|dTEFOD|dOCLCQ|dN$T|dOCLCF|dYDXCP |dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dDEBSZ|dE7B|dTEFOD|dOCLCQ|dRECBK 049 RIDW 050 4 HV4708 .S623 2012 072 7 NAT|x039000|2bisacsh 082 04 179.3|a179/.3 090 HV4708 .S623 2012 100 1 Smith, Wesley J.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n85362710 245 12 A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy :|bthe Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. 264 1 New York :|bEncounter Books,|c2012. 300 1 online resource (335 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Foreword by Dean Koontz; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; PART ONE "For the Animals"; 1. Animal Advocacy Isn't What It Used to Be; 2. "All Animals Are Equal"; 3. Animals Are People Too; 4. Let It Begin with Apes; 5. Here Comes the Judge; 6. The Silver Spring Monkey Case; 7. The Death of a Thousand Cuts; 8. Proselytizing Children; PART TWO By Any Means Necessary; 9. Advocating Terror; 10. Tertiary Targeting; 11. Praising with Faint Condemnation; 12. Murder They Wrote?; PART THREE For the People; 13. Animal Rights vs. Medical Research; 14. Our System of Animal Research. 505 8 15. Ensuring the Proper Care of Lab Animals16. Meat Is Not Murder; 17. Fur, Hunting, and Zoos; 18. The Importance of Being Human; Supplement; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index. 520 Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term "animal rights" is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do sometimes focus their activism on promoting animal welfare, the larger movement they represent is actually advancing a radical belief system. For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Animal rights.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh89005495 650 0 Human-animal relationships.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85062838 650 0 Animal welfare.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85005274 650 7 Animal rights.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/809364 650 7 Human-animal relationships.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org /fast/963482 650 7 Animal welfare.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/809431 655 4 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aSmith, Wesley J.|tA Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy : The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.|dNew York : Encounter Books, ©2012 |z9781594036149 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=516048|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID