The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World: Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, Jun 5, 2018 - Nature - 288 pages

"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelfand it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" —Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an Octopus

The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World is the inspiring, accessible, and empowering book for everyone who loves animals and wants to live a more animal-friendly life, even if they aren’t ready to join a movement or give up bacon.

With more than 7.5 billion people on the planet, wildlife is going extinct at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs. Three to four million dogs and cats are killed in shelters every year; billions of chickens, pigs, and cows are killed for food; and countless animals are killed in research labs or their habitat. The numbers are daunting, but there’s good news too! Even one person truly can make a difference without breaking the bank.

With Stephanie Feldstein's straightforward and encouraging guidance, readers will learn how to take action to create a better world for the animals we love. It starts with changes as simple as taking a shorter shower, skipping meat once a week, wearing "this" not "that," and extends all the way to online activism and politics.

The animals need us; so let's get on with some world changing!

 

Contents

The Animals Need You
3
Animal Advocacy 101
11
Share the Love
22
The Political Beast
28
Money Talks
37
Compassion in the Classroom
46
The Power of Words
54
Find Your Pack
61
Take Extinction Off Your Plate
119
Lets Talk About Sex
130
The Call of the Wild
138
The Animals Arent Amused
147
Clean Conscience
155
What Not to Wear
162
Old MacDonald Lost His Farm
171
Holiday Hangover
185

Green Is the New Black
71
Conservation Uncaged
79
Neighborhood BirdWatch
89
Unplug Climate Change
97
Plastic Detox
105
Down the Drain
112
If You See Something Say Something
204
Unconditional Love
221
Additional Resources
235
Notes
249
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About the author (2018)

Stephanie Feldstein is the Population and Sustainability Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, where she heads a national program that addresses the connection between human population growth, overconsumption, and the wildlife extinction crisis. She created the innovative Take Extinction Off Your Plate campaign, and her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, NPR, Salon, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and more.

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