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Ingrid Newkirk, feisty author of 'Free the Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America,' has been arrested dozens of times for protesting the abuse of animals on fur farms and in laboratories and was jailed for disrupting a pigeon shoot attended by the Ku Klux Klan. She has pulled a carriage through the streets of Mumbai, India, to secure the retirement of horses from hard labor; caged herself to prevent the drowning of stray dogs in Taiwan; and closed down a live-rat exhibit in the sewers of Paris. She is the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) U.S. and all international PETA entities.
Joaquin Phoenix, who wrote the foreword to 'Free the Animals,' has acquired the rights to turn it into a movie, and the book has received enthusiastic endorsements from such stars as Oliver Stone, Bill Maher, Pamela Anderson, James Cromwell, and Kim Basinger.
Newkirk’s work is the subject of the on-demand HBO special 'I Am an Animal,' she was named a top businessperson of the year in Forbes magazine, and she has been profiled in The New Yorker and People magazine.
Among her accomplishments, Newkirk achieved the passage of legislation to create the first spay/neuter clinic in Washington, D.C.; coordinated the first arrest in U.S. history of a scientist on cruelty-to-animals charges; and, most recently, orchestrated the closure of a beagle-breeding facility that sold thousands of dogs into experimentation. She spearheaded the shutdown of the U.S. Department of Defense’s underground “wound laboratory” and ended General Motors’ crash tests on animals.
She is the author of several other books, including 'Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion,' '250 Vital Things Your Cat Wants You to Know: The Cat Guardian’s Bible,' 'Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living,' 'You Can Save the Animals: 251 Simple Ways to Stop Thoughtless Cruelty,' and 'The PETA Celebrity Cookbook.'
A graduate of Stanford and Harvard, Gene Stone (www.genestone.com) is a former Peace Corps volunteer, journalist, and book, magazine, and newspaper editor for such companies as the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Harcourt Brace, and Simon & Schuster. He has written many books under his own name on a wide variety of subjects, and has also ghostwritten or co-written another thirty-five books for a very diverse lot of people, from theoretical physicist Steven Hawking to New York City mayor Eric Adams. However, for the past fifteen years he has concentrated mainly on writing books (either under his own name, as a co-writer, or as a ghostwriter) about plant-based diets and their relationship to animal protection, health, and the environment. Among these books are such titles as Forks Over Knives, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan, How Not to Die, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, Rescue Dogs, Eat for the Planet, Mercy for Animals, The Awareness, The Engine 2 Diet, and Animalkind.
Mayim Bialik is best known as Amy Farrah Fowler on America's no. 1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory, a role for which she has received four Emmy nominations and a Critics' Choice Award nomination in addition to two Critics' Choice award wins. She also starred in the early-1990s sitcom Blossom. Mayim earned a B.S. from UCLA in Neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from UCLA in Neuroscience. She is the author of Boying Up and the #1 New York Times bestseller, Girling Up, as well as Beyond the Sling and Mayim's Vegan Table.
Mayim founded Grok Nation in 2015 as a platform for sharing her writing on everything from religious observance and modesty to women's issues to parenting to politics. She seeks to present herself as a normal, imperfect mom trying to make everything run smoothly in a world that often feels out of her control. Mayim lives in Los Angeles with her brave, bold and brilliant sons.
You can visit Mayim Bialik at groknation.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram @MissMayim, and watch her videos at youtube.com/mayimbialik.
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When I was a thirteen year old kid in ninth grade biology, the teacher told us that all animals lived by instinct alone. Even then as a dumb hillbilly kid in the hills of Southern Indiana, heck we were all dumb, this didn't make sense. Dogs would respond to their names, farm animals learned the routine of the daily routine, birds learned that farmer's field work meant more insects, and the list goes on.
As years have passed considerable research has proven the biology teacher wrong. He also had a part time job pumping gas in a nearby town. Newkirk and her ghost writer use the first half of the book to document animal intelligence and it is incredible as even mold slime shows memory. The book's second half outlines things we can all do to protect animals and also gives considerable detail into substitutes for live animal products. Maybe there is hope for a better animalkind future. . .if we can convince the Chinese to quit eating stupid stuff and skinning live animals.
One negative. Hard cover books aren't what they once were. Now cheap paper covered cardboard and with Newkirk's book really cheap paper. For the money it's a ripoff. Text good. Book quality very poor.
Great book
Ingrid Newkirk, founder of Peta, released her newest book today. My copy is in the mail, but I went ahead and listened to the audio this evening. Peta may be known for polarizing ads, but Ingrid’s book feels like it was written to unite us. Her writing is hopeful and positive about the changes we can continue to make for a better world.
The first section celebrates the incredible intelligence of all animals. From their ability to express empathy and love, to how well they communicate with each other and other species. The second part of the book is a forward-looking description of all the various issues surrounding animal welfare. Her fascination and love for all creatures is evident throughout the book and I feel encouraged after listening to it.
I'm about 1/2 done with the book, 1st half had intriguing and interesting facts about animals/marine life, etc,
2nd 1/2 will be more of a challenge as it details all the horrific things that we put animals thru, as we aim to manufacture and investigate thru lab work, .......I have a very difficult time, reading that type of material, so, the last 1/2 of the book, will be a struggle , to get thru.
Animalkind covers a lot of ground, exploring humans’ use and abuse of animals all the way back to prehistoric times, but it never feels bogged down or pedantic. The authors have a breezy and even lighthearted way of discussing animal rights, which may seem like a depressing topic. But don’t worry—you will feel anything but depressed after reading about trickster squirrels, snowboarding crows, war hero pigeons, and the amazing technological advances that are preventing cruelty to animals on a massive scale in the food, entertainment, clothing, and research industries. While reading this book, I found myself exclaiming aloud several times, “Wow, I never knew that!” Such as the fact that Queen Victoria was among the first anti-vivisectionists, or that eating a vegan diet and wearing vegan clothing dates back thousands of years. One thing I do know is that I will never look at a fish or a bee and other animals the same way again, after learning about the incredible feats they are capable of, such as recognizing themselves in a mirror (fish), or using the sun to navigate (bees).
This is a very nice read—it flows and keeps you going throughout. For a book about animal cruelty that sometimes feels like a hopeless issue, Animalkind gives me some much-needed hope. This book shows you how easy it is to avoid hurting animals by buying plant leather (apple, tea, and more!) and going to movies that use CGI technology (rather than paying for a movie that hurts animals forced to act—Google the TMZ video taken on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose.”) I am curious about test-tube meat, and am thankful for high-tech organs on a chip that are replacing animals in labs. Animalkind helps the reader better understand animals and why their lives matter (even the ones who seem weird to others like octopuses and dragonflies), and also inspires the reader to do more to help them. I learned how easy it is to change some behaviors while learning a bunch of easy ways to help them (which I can start doing now). I’m giving my copy to my niece who is writing a high school paper on ethics. This will be really helpful to her for school, and I’m sure she’ll learn as much as I did!
I’m surprised by how much I enjoyed this book, and I’m not sure why .It’s written in a really engaging, sometimes joking, conversational way, even when talking about slime mold, of all things, which is actually a literal page-turner. I was moved to tears by the story about a young elephant’s efforts to comfort a dying relative, but was laughing minutes later while reading about crocodiles daintily picking flowers. The history major in me appreciated the passages recounting how the Black Death helped usher in fashion design, and how Charles Darwin helped lay the groundwork for animal rights. The book is a blend of amazing facts about animals’ sensitivity, intelligence and communication skllls, combined with discomforting information about how animals are still tortured in many ways, including for food, clothing, and experimentation, passages that were made all the more poignant after reading about how mice, (common “test subjects”), “sing” to each other ultrasonically. If you don’t already gaze at the birds in your backyard wondering what they’re saying, you will after reading Animalkind.
While the book is mostly a collection of animal facts, it rams home just how wrong our opinions are that we are somehow superior beings on this planet. Although when you consider that we are the only species that actively destroys its own environment, eats animal products that also destroy the environment and kill us, and that we have caused devastating viruses to arise (by our continual messing with other species) then it's easy to suggest that we are indeed the stupidest animals ever to have lived.
This book is a amazing book in truth and covers everything. Thankyou, Mrs. Julie Gaudry
Easy to read and great and interesting content,
Great product, Delivered right on time.
Give it to your kids and also great for adults.
Stop especismo, lee y culturízate, no estamos sobre la tierra para arrasar y abusar de otros animales no humanos.
Resumen del libro 11/10
