Changing the Game Why the Battle for Animal Liberation Is So Hard and How We Can Win It - Phelps, Norm (Lantern Books, 2013)
In this controversial and timely book, animal liberation activist Norm Phelps argues that the animal rights movement has reached a crisis point
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; An Asymmetrical War; Challenge, Environment, Response: A Framework for Analyzing Strategy; Words; Introduction: It's Time to Change the Game; Part One: The Challenge: "The Most Difficult Battle Ever Fought"; Chapter One: The Universal Crime; It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!; "Food! Glorious Food!"; Chapter Two: Slave Owners for Abolition; The Missing Loop; The Othermost Beings; Chapter Three: We Are All Nazis-And If I Quit Eating Meat, I'll Have to Admit That to Myself; The Crime Worse Than Genocide
The Shock of RecognitionLooking Out for Number One; Chapter Four: The Crown of Creation and the Acme of Evolution; Chapter Five: Follow the Money; Chapter Six: "Optimism of the Will"; Part Two: The Environment: "A Dark Age Was About to Begin"; Chapter Seven: "It Ain't What You Do, It's the Time That You Do It"; Chapter Eight: The Empire Strikes Back; The Destruction of the American Community; The Dream of a Great Society; Chapter Nine: The Madness of More; The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Fired and Foreclosed; Democracy Comes Back to America
Chapter Ten: Creating a Universal Rights MovementHalfway There; Our Other Natural Allies; Chapter Eleven: We're Not in Kansas Anymore; By the Numbers; You Can Take Your Old Enlightenment and Go Sit in the Corner; The Universal Value; When the World Changed Course; Give Me That Old Time Religion; The Rites of Succession; Part Three: Responses: The Prize and the Plow; Chapter Twelve: Agitators and Politicians; In the Beginning Was the Word; In the Beginning Was the Deed; Talkin' Union; John Brown's Body; Chapter Thirteen: In the Beginning; The First Politician on the Scene; Empty Victories
Chapter Fourteen: The Movement Turns to PoliticsOf Politics and Pigeons: A Compromise Settlement; Animals Get the Vote: Lobbying and Electoral Processes; Meatless Mondays and Vegan Options: Reducing Consumption; Persuading Manufacturers and Sellers of Animal Products to Demand less Cruelty; Faux Is For Real: Alternatives to Animal Products; A Caveat; Chapter Fifteen: "Abolitionism:" The Agitation-Only Approach to Animal Rights; Hobgoblin; Chapter Sixteen: How Welfare Reforms Promote Liberation; Cognitive Dissonance and Bounded Ethicality; Chapter Seventeen: The Proof of the Pudding