Animals\' Angels - wir sind bei den Tieren | we are there with the animals

“Slaughterhouse”
by Gail A. Eisnitz

Gail A. Eisnitz investigated slaughterhouses throughout the USA in the 1990’s and this book is a summary of her horrific observations illustrating that there is a serious flaw in the control of slaughterhouses, resulting in unacceptable levels of animals suffering and also human suffering.

“The pig who sang to the moon”
by Jeffery Masson
Jeffery Masson reveals that farm animals so often mistreated or abused, feel complex emotions – among them love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief and sorrow. The domesticated animals which live on our farms are very little removed from their wild ancestors, and keep the emotions that belonged to those animals when they lived free. This means that the confinement farm animals are subjected to is painful to them and that those enduring factory farm conditions are suffering little less than torture.

Animals, Ethics and Trade - The challenge of animal sentience
Edited by Jackie Turner and Joyce D’Silva

A discussion of the scientific and ethical perspectives on the consciousness, emotions and mental abilities of animals. The book also addresses how human activities such as science, law, religion, farming, food production, trade, development and education respect or ignore animals’ sentience and welfare, and review the options for changes in our policies, our practices and our thinking. The result is nothing less than a stark and necessary look into the heart of humanity and the ethics that govern our animal powered society.