Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance - Brossura

Hribal, Jason

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ISBN 10: 1849350264 ISBN 13: 9781849350266

Casa editrice: A K Pr Distribution, 2011

Riassunto

A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had repeatedly fed her lit cigarettes. A pair of orangutans at the San Diego Zoo steal a crowbar and screwdriver and break-out of their enclosure. An orca at Sea World snatches his trainer into the pool and holds her underwater until she drowns. What's going on here? Are these mere accidents? Simply cases of animals acting on instinct? That's what the zoos and animal theme parks would have you believe. But historian Jason Hribal tells a different story. In the most provocative book on animal rights since Peter Singer'sAnimal Liberation, Hribal argues persuasively that these escapes and attacks are deliberate, that the animals are acting with intent, that they are asserting their own desires for freedom.Fear of the Animal Planet is a harrowing, and curiously uplifting, chronicle of resistance against the captivity and torture of animals.

"Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the captive beast. Prepare to have your illusions of security shattered as Jason Hribal shows us that a revolution is brewing among those frustrated leaping orcas, elephants in headdresses, and tigers kept behind bars. Animal spectacles, shows, and exhibits, it turns out, pose a deep, dark threat not only to nature herself but also to those who impose their will on wild spirits and those who pop in for a few hours to watch. A riveting, eye-opening book."--Ingrid Newkirk, president and co-founder of PETA

Jason Hribal is an historian and educator. He is the contemporary editor of John Oswald’s 1791 classic,The Cry of Nature.

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch and author of Born Under a Bad Sky.

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Recensione:

'Hribal's book is less an account of animal abuse than it is an attempt to understand how these animals respond to years of captivity, sensory deprivation, and stress... Company officials would be wise to read [it] and consider how things look from inside the cage or the bottom of the tank.' --Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal

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Jason Hribal: Jason Hribal is an independent historian, who teaches in the field of adult education. He is the contemporary editor of John Oswald’s 1791 classic, The Cry of Nature: An Appeal to Mercy and to Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals (2000).

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• Editore: A K Pr Distribution
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849350264
• ISBN 13: 9781849350266
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162