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Book Review Flashback: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

June 17, 2025 by John Yunker

Midge Raymond reviewed this iconic book back in 2012, with a unique take: I recently revisited Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle—the original edition published by a socialist newspaper in 1905, not the …

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Categories Fiction, Flashback

Book Review: Environment by Rolf Halden

February 18, 2022 by Lillie Gardner

If you were expecting a book called “Environment” to include an inspiring exploration of how trees communicate, poetic scenes of dolphins swimming gracefully through a blue ocean or an examination …

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Categories Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Sustainability

Book Review: The Longest Story

October 4, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Upon reading the synopsis, Richard Girling’s The Longest Story appears to take on an ambitious task: cover the relationship between humans and non-human animals throughout all of history in under …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, History, Nonfiction

Upcoming event: Evolving Beyond Animal Ag

January 30, 2021 by John Yunker

Imagine that you’re an nth-generation farmer and you’ve been raised to continue business as usual in animal agriculture. But you can’t help but notice that the world is changing around …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian

June 30, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives by Hope Ferdowsian, MD, is among the many compassionate, powerful, inspiring books the world needs now. This slender book about trauma …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, History, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, Veganism, Wolves

Book Review: The Animals’ Agenda by Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce

September 29, 2019May 8, 2018 by Midge Raymond

The Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce is an important and timely book that examines the human relationship with — or, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Beacon Press, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Veganism

Book Review: Clean Meat by Paul Shapiro

September 29, 2019January 3, 2018 by Midge Raymond

Paul Shapiro’s book Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World explores the fascinating — and potentially planet-saving — world of cultured meat. While the …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Gallery Books, Nonfiction, Pollution, Veganism

Book Review – The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle

September 29, 2019June 11, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Wayne Pacelle’s The Bond is much more than its gentle title suggests. Rather than present a quaint book about the human-animal bond, Pacelle (president and CEO of the Humane Society of …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, William Morrow

Book Review: Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet by Richard Oppenlander

February 11, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Richard Oppenlander’s Comfortably Unaware is a book everyone on the planet should read. Unfortunately, the book’s biggest drawback is that it may not feel accessible to those who need to …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Veganism

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