Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money |  | Author: Erik Marcus
Publisher: Brio Press
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0975867911
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: July 15, 2005
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Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agricultureÕs cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied.
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Great for vegetarians to read! October 28, 2009
Petal Power (San Francisco, CA)
When I read this book, I had been consuming a mostly vegan diet for a few years, primarily to reduce my environmental footprint, and also because I've always gravitated toward lots of fruits, veggies, and whole grains, for their nutritional value, so my diet was de facto mostly vegan. I was only vaguely aware of the cruelties caused to animals in the fish, beef, pork, dairy, and egg industries. I never would have considered becoming a vegan activist, but this book opened my eyes and got me motivated and interested in going vegan and promoting veganism for others, too! Since then I've been leafletting and donating to organizations like Vegan Outreach, as well as reading more on the subject. This is an excellent book for vegetarians to read.
 Want to know all the nasty details! March 12, 2009
Angela Dawn Locklear (bluffton sc)
Not as descriptive as I would have liked but very informative of things I did not think about before
Love for animals March 10, 2009
Prairie Amma (Kansas, USA)
I hope someday we can change the natural order so that there is no nonconsensual suffering or harm done to any creature. Nature is set up for the powerful devouring the small, or harming the small against their will. I do believe humans can be truly loving and try to minimize this pain as much as possible. Go Vegan, treat animals as friends not as things to be consumed or used at the cost of their suffering. Make it a law not to kill or use animals for any reason other than companionship or kind joy. It seems impossible now, but I do think we could free and protect animals throughout the world. Slavery was once an intractable economic and pleasurable institution in America and perhaps people thought it was impossible then to abolish it and now at least the obvious forms of slavery are gone. We could do the same for animals. Maybe take a Gandhi or a peaceful resistance movement, but I could see a world where animals were never treated like things to be abused - at least by human beings. Science, our desires, everything - should serve love. Love is kind and gentle, love wishes every good for the beloved.
Can be life-changing February 7, 2009
Marilyn H. David (Mississippi)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is required reading for a course I teach. I chose it because it it well-researched, brings together many sources of data regarding the treatment of animals in the food industry, and provocatively examines alternatives. In addition, it is very readable. My students, year after year, comment that this book "grabbed me," "changed my life," "was fascinating," "shocked me," and "makes me look at my personal responsibility in how our society treats food animals," and they always ask, "why hasn't anyone given me this information before?" This book gives me hope, because of the impact it has on the students, who as responsible citizens will one day be in a position to effect change for the animals.
One of the best books for activists June 27, 2008
Sammy (Monterey, CA)
I've got a couple dozen vegan-oriented books and this is one of the best. Succinct, cogent, smart, well-researched. A lot of books don't give enough hard facts or go deeply enough into their information. This one does both. Particularly great guidance for activists--which I consider any ethical vegan to be just by virtue of being 'the vegan in the room.'
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