Animal Rights

This genre covers writing that supports the case to grant animals rights based on their sentience and desire for autonomy.

Animal Liberation
Eating Animals
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Case for Animal Rights
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Brood by Jackie PolzinHow to Speak Chicken by Melissa CaugheyTo Get to the Other Side by Kelly OhlertA Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage by Guirec SoudéeChickenology by Barbara Sandri
chicken love
11 books — 5 voters

Bear Boy by Justin BarkerThe End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese AnthisEating Animals by Jonathan Safran FoerDominion by Matthew ScullyThe Rhino Crash by Nick Newman
Animals
73 books — 25 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellAphro-ism by Aph KoSummer Wings by April TremblayPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDBeasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor
Books for Animal Liberation Month
8 books — 4 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellGwen the Rescue Hen by Leslie  CrawfordSprig the Rescue Pig by Leslie  CrawfordWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Plague Dogs by Richard  Adams
Best Animal Rights Fiction
54 books — 20 voters

Rai Aren
I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.
Rai Aren

Plutarch
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and ...more
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