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"DOMINION, The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and The Call to Mercy" by Matthew Scully.
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Be sure to page all the way down to the bottom of this page and you will find a link to his own website where you can order the book and contact him directly by email.
Matthew Scully served until August 2004 as special assistant to the president and deputy director of presidential speechwriting. He worked for President George W. Bush a total of five years, including 18 months in the 2000 campaign, and was part of the team that drafted the President’s post-September 11th addresses and every major speech of the first term. Scully has also written for vice presidents Dick Cheney and Dan Quayle, presidential candidate Robert Dole, Arizona Governor Fife Symington, and the late Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey. A former literary editor of National Review, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The National Post of Canada, among other newspapers and magazines. He is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (St. Martin's Press), named by The Atlantic Monthly as one of the ten best non-fiction works of 2002, and still available in paperback. He lives with his wife Emmanuelle in Los Angeles.
About the book:
Book Reviews
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals,
and the Call to Mercy.
"Dominion is a horrible, wonderful, important book. It is horrible in its subject, a half-reportorial, half-philosophical examination of some of the most repugnant things that human beings do to animals.... The book is wonderful in its eloquent, mordant clarity, and its hilarious fillets of sanctimonious cant and hypocrisy.... Dominion is important in large measure because the author, an avowed conservative Republican and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is an unexpected defender of the animals against the depredations of profit driven corporations, swaggering, gun-loving hunters, proponents of renewed 'harvesting' of whales and elephants and others who insist that all of nature is humanity's romper room, to play with, rearrange, and plunder at will.... This is a beautiful book, and a balm to the scared, lonely animal in us all. -- Natalie Angier, The New York Times Book Review
"This is one of the best books ever written on the subject of animal welfare.... [Scully] rightly argues that the important thing is not insisting upon equal 'rights' for animals, but in treating them with a modicum of respect and dignity. His book is as close as a philosophy can come to representing 'animal rights' goals while not proclaiming animals to be equal in status to humans.... He asks penetrating questions and shows the logical and political inconsistencies used to defend cruel industries.... The author's sarcasm...adds an emotional element to his unequalled depth of insight. Scully has a remarkable grasp of the issues and a unique perspective on our societal treatment of animals. Every librarian should purchase this book. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"Scully is at his best when he...goes out into the field. With an almost masochistic resolve, he exposes himself to the theory and practice of exploitation as it is found among the exponents of commercial hunting and industrial farming.... In the three arenas -- food, sport, and experiment -- Scully asks all the right questions.... When he is on form, he does this in beautiful and witty prose.... I came to discern while reading Dominion that in all the cases where animal suffering disturbed me, it was largely because of rationalist humanism.... Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf. To the extent that we see our own interest in doing so, we unpick both the tautology that hobbles the utilitarian and the idealist delusion that surrounds the religious, and may simply become more 'humane' -- a word that seems to require a final vowel as never before." -- Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly
"Scully has written what is surely destined to be a classic defense of mercy. A master of language, he leaves a memorable phrase on virtually every page." --Nichols Fox, Washington Post Book World
"A brilliant and comprehensive book on the suffering of animals.... I was frankly stunned by the intellectual integrity of Scully's book and his reasonable approach to the subject matter. Instead of sounding as if he were a whining sentimentalist, Scully cleverly turns the tables on those who would dismiss animal suffering as a soft-headed cause by his use of hard facts.... I was moved.... The most appealing phrase that Scully uses is one you will hear true thinkers use when discussing any weighty subject: "It is a serious and complicated situation, and I don't claim to have all the answers.... I realize that Scully was right to say he doesn't have all the answers. And that gives him a unique credibility on the subject." --United Press International
"Scully makes an impassioned argument based on the fact that animals suffer and feel pain.... Matthew Scully is clearly an intelligent man whose big heart has found a just and noble cause. His is a powerful and sometimes even inspired writer, and his devotion to his subject is so great that he left his job at the White House to promote the message of this book." --The Weekly Standard
"A fascinating and disturbing read." --National Review
"Mr. Scully's case proved to be more powerful than I expected.... a morally serious case for doing all we can to end cruelty to animals, even if that requires changing some of our eating habits..." --Fred Barnes, The Wall Street Journal
"An eloquent, tightly reasoned, courageous manifesto."--The Weekly Standard
"I am about to do something I never thought I would do. I am going to strongly recommend a new book written by Matthew Scully.... He skillfully argues his case for compassion.... He can be disarmingly polite and witty as he bursts the balloons of self-serving illogic that define society's relationship to animals.... Scully brilliantly articulates the idea that where fundamental human interests are at stake, and human suffering is the issue, the progressives among us are more absolutists, but with animals and their suffering they become moral relativists who dare not question what others -- from Japanese whalers to profiteering pork producers -- rationalize in defence of their respective forms of animal abuse.... This book is highly recommended to all." --The Toronto Star
"A magnificent new book...Scully pulls his readers into the moral abyss now characterizing the ways humans treat animals." --The Dallas Morning News
"Dominion is a book of arresting literary beauty.... Scully's writing draws its beauty from its calm and gentleness and restraint.... Scully will make all his readers think hard about their ethical obligations, not merely to animals, but to all living things that depend on the moral restraint of the strong.... Dominion is a book to treasure even for those who will reject most of its conclusions. It is the work of a good man, whose goodness tells us much, not just about his own character, but about the character of the president who selected Scully to speak for him." --National Post (Canada)
"An unsettling book, one that will challenge the conflicting views most of us hold.... It shines a bright light on indecent treatment kept out of the public view.... It promises to stir many hearts and minds." --The Arizona Republic
"[Scully] doesn't proselytize. What he advocates, simply, is humane treatment for all God's creatures.... I was saddened, moved and unsettled by this book. I no longer consider animal rights a fringe movement.... In the end, Scully does a brilliant job of planting a very disturbing seed: If we can treat animals this cruelly, what are we capable of doing to ourselves?" --The Rocky Mountain News
"Winsome and inviting.... A challenging and potentially life-changing book.... Scully's book stretches our understanding of what it means to be humane." --Father Richard John Neuhaus, National Review
"Skillfully weav[es] in argument with narrative.... Both entertaining and informative." --The American Spectator
"[Scully] is eminently qualified, by virtue of his rhetorical gifts.... Eloquent." --Los Angeles Times
"Some books you don't just read, you live with them, you tell friends about them, you read passages aloud to your wife, they change the way you live in the world. This is one of those books.... An extraordinary book, deep, witty, incisive.... I cannot think of a single volume that can equal this one in passion, in persuasiveness, in profundity.... I defy you to read this without a feeling of awe, because the righter gets it so right, no just the idea, but also the tone, the hidden appeal, the intense feeling behind the writing.... Eloquent passages occur over and over in the book. You cannot but sigh with pleasure as you read them.... Absolutely devastating.... You feel the compassion flowing from him right onto the page, and hopefully right into your heart as it did mine. It is compelling stuff. I challenge anyone to read it with indifference. Anyone who has anything to do with animals (and that means everyone who eats them) owes it to him or herself to read this extraordinary book. It just might change your life." -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, New Zealand Listener
"Until quite recently, my conscience was clear when it came to my relationship with the animals.... My self?satisfaction has been rather shaken, however, by reading the new book Dominion.... The truly remarkable thing about this book is its assertion that many animals in this world deserve better, not because they are our equals and have rights like our own, but precisely because they are our inferiors and subject to our power." --San Francisco Catholic
"One of the best books of last year." --Forward
"A beautifully written and very powerful book." --G. Gordon Liddy
"A remarkable book.... An overwhelming case that man is abusing his stewardship of the earth." --Joseph Sobran, The Sobran Newsletter
Here is a link to Mr. Scully's own website. Here you can order the book and contact him directly if you like. Perhaps we can get him to join the American Horse Anti-Slaughter Movement!
REDEMPTION......
REDEMPTION
"The Myth of Pet Over-Population and the No-Kill Revolution in America"
by Nathan J. Winograd.
Redemption is the story of animal sheltering in the
About the author: This
Nathan J. Winograd is the Director of the national No Kill Advocacy Center. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, a former criminal prosecutor and attorney, was director of operations for the San Francisco SPCA and executive director of the Tompkins County SPCA, two of the most successful shelters in the nation. He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national level, has created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups including some of the largest and best known in the nation.
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About the book:
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/
A Video Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1r9GJ_N7WU
Whats New at the Center: A Lawsuit Against L.A. Shelters for Shocking Abuses: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/whatsnew.html
"AFTER THE FINISH LINE: THE RACE TO END HORSE SLAUGHTER IN AMERICA" by Turf Writer Bill Heller, pub. by Bow Tie Press
Note: This book was published before the closing of the last three remaining equine slaughterhouses in the USA, but still is a very informative source of information on the subject;
Horse slaughter is a sad reality, even in America where horses are not part of the "food chain". Exceller and Ferdinand are but two examples of popular, stakes-winning horses who have met this sad fate after unsuccessful careers at stud. Every horse fan, racing or otherwise, should read this book to understand he seriousness of the issue, and hopefully get enticed to join the fight against this most heinous treatment of these beautiful animals.
- Does not pull any punches in a strategic attack on horse slaughter in America
- Opens the horse lover's eyes to the reality of how horses are killed for food
- Encourages the reader to take up the fight and support the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act
- An excellent tribute to the many organizations who save retired, unwanted, injured horses
- Certain groups continue to support horse slaughter as "euthanasia"
- The battle appears to be an uphill one with no end in sight
- Graphic descriptions may be disturbing, but necessary to get the message out
Description
- In North America, the horse is a creature we admire and respect.
- We use them in practical applications as well as for entertainment such as racing and dressage.
- In places such as France and Japan, however, horse meat is a delicacy and horses are killed for food
- This was the fate of two great Thoroughbreds, Exceller and Ferdinand, who were failures at stud.
- Although they were slaughtered overseas, many were killed in America at foreign-owned slaughterhouses - (local laws have since closed the last three remaining horse slaugher plants in the USA, but America now sends horses to slaughter to Canada & Mexico in even greater numbers than before)
- Horse slaughter (was) illegal in Texas and authorities turned a blind eye to a slaughterhouse near Dallas until local residents complained.
- In America, horses are killed using a captive bolt often at the hands of unskilled employees.
- This is a far cry from the euthanasia practised by veterinarians at racetracks and farms.
- Amazingly, two powerful veterinarian associations actually condone this most inhumane practice.
Guide Review - Review : After the Finish Line: The Race to End Horse Slaughter in America
In response, some politicians introduced the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which, despite bipartisan support, has been stalled indefinitely by high-profile groups who believe horse slaughter is humane. After reading Heller's gruesome detail of what happens in the slaughterhouses when the captive bolt is used, one cannot understand how this can be equated with "euthanasia."
Heller promotes the many great people who have made it their mission to rescue unwanted horses, finding uses for them such as pleasure riding or prisoner rehab. If the Act ever passes, these organizations will be needed more than ever, as hundreds of horses that would have died will suddenly need new
http://horseracing.about.com/od/bookreviews/gr/aagr111405.htm
