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100 1 $aSmith, Wesley J.
245 12 $aA rat is a pig is a dog is a boy :$bthe human cost of the animal rights movement /$cWesley J. Smith.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEncounter Books,$cc2010.
300 $axiii, 312 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / by Dean Koontz -- Introduction -- Part I: "For the animals" -- Animal advocacy isn't what it used to be -- "All animals are equal" -- Animals are people too -- Let it begin with apes -- Here comes the judge -- The Silver Spring monkey case -- The death of a thousand cuts -- Proselytizing children -- Part II: By any means necessary -- Advocating terror -- Tertiary targeting -- Praising with faith condemnation -- Murder they wrote? -- Part III: For the people -- Animal rights vs. medical research -- Our system of animal research -- Ensuring the proper care of lab animals -- Meat is not murder -- Fur, hunting, and zoos -- The importance of being human.
520 $aFor some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.
650 0 $aAnimal rights.
650 0 $aHuman-animal relationships.
650 0 $aAnimal welfare.
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