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Second nature : the animal rights controversy / Alan Herscovici.
- Title
- Second nature : the animal rights controversy / Alan Herscovici.
- Author
- Herscovici, Alan, 1948-
- Publication
- Toronto : Stoddart, 1991, c1985.
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- Description
- 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The problem -- The philosophical roots of our present ecological crisis: Descartes and the animal machine -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Eastern philosophy -- The origins of ecology and animal rights: Conservation -- Animal rights -- The world of the Cree hunter -- Sealing : the twenty-year war. Prologue and act one of the great baby-seal campaigns: cultures in collision -- Act two of the great baby-seal campaigns : Greenpeace and sex appeal -- Act three of the great baby-seal campaigns: the EEC -- CITES 1983: Botswana -- What really happened ... -- The people: Newfoundland fishermen and Inuit hunters -- Newfoundland -- The Arctic Inuit -- The 1984 IFAW "fish boycott."
- Traps and trapping. The Ohio amendment and the media -- Bringing the trapping debate to Europe: a repeat of the seal campaign -- Destroying the consumer market for furs -- "Wearing fur is a mark of ignorance or indifference" -- Aboriginal trappers and hunters -- CITES 1983 : friends of animals and banning the leghold trap -- The Canadian fur industry -- Animals in research and on factory farms. The factory farm -- Vegetarianism and animal rights -- Building a new relationship with nature. The story of a miracle.
- ISBN
- 0773754989
- LCCN
- cn^91095714^
- OCLC
- 25088864
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library