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Chickens

New and forthcoming environmental books (June 2024)

June 9, 2024June 2, 2024 by John Yunker

Here’s the latest batch of books to come across our desks — enjoy! The first book is written by the founder of an amazing chicken rescue organization, Sweet Peeps, based …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading

On Animals by Susan Orlean

December 2, 2022 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “. . . are such rare, extraordinary kinships valuable because they remind us of a continuity with living creatures that we easily forget?”  Susan …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Pets

Animal Resistance: When animals fight back and when humans listen

August 9, 2025January 18, 2021 by John Yunker
Animal Resistance

In the first chapter of Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, Sarat Colling tells the story of Emily, possibly the most famous cow to have escaped a slaughterhouse. It …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Michigan State University Press, Nonfiction, Pets, Topics, Veganism, What we're reading

For the Animals: Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism

September 29, 2019March 1, 2019 by John Yunker

The cover of Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, a collection of essays edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, features a photograph of a rescued chicken taken by Jo-Anne McArthur. Rescued …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Insects, Nonfiction, Routledge, Veganism

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