Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: Sanctuary 1

Part I A Special Bond

1 The Ties that Bond 21

The Biochemistry of the Bond 24

Pet Keeping Through the Ages 30

Domesticated Animals: "Bonded to the House" 33

Animal Sacrifice: "The Perfect Gift" 40

Animal Welfare and the "Great Republic of the Future" 43

Self-Evident Truths 48

2 The Mismeasure of Animals 54

Thinking and Feeling: Shared Capacities 56

Denying Animal Intelligence 59

Signs of Change 66

Lifesaving Dolphins and Dogs, Altruistic Elephants, and Other Remarkable Animals 71

The Emotional Lives of Animals 79

Part II The Betrayal of the Bond

3 A Message From Hallmark: Exposing Factory Farming 91

The Slaughterhouse Next Door: Inside a California Meat Plant 94

The Hypocrisy of "Happy Cows" 105

Endless Denials: The Challenge of Reform 114

"The New Agriculture": The Ways of Industrial Farming 119

"Meat Science": Turkeys Who Can't Walk, Pigs Who Can't Move, and Other Victims of Agribusiness 125

Stirring the Silent Majority 130

4 A Culture of Cruelty: Animal Fighting in America 135

Bad Newz on Moonlight Road: Dogfighting Comes Out of the Shadows 137

Michael Vick and the Contradiction of Cruelty 145

Blood Sport Through the Ages 153

"The Feathered Warrior" 157

"I Won't Disappoint You" 172

5 For the Love of Pets 177

Katrina and the Human-Animal Bond 180

The Animals in Our Lives 190

In the Name of Mercy: Animal Shelters and the Problem of Euthanasia 196

Factory Farms for Dogs: The Tragedy of Puppy Mills 204

The AKC and "the Maintenance of Purity" 209

Nothing Fancy: The Costs of Reckless Breeding 217

6 The Cull of the Wild 222

Unfaithful Stewards: Betraying Yellowstone's Bison 225

Killing and Longing: The Lessons of TR 233

The Era of Rational Slaughter 239

"Let's Kill them All": The Attack on Alaska's Wolves 243

"Garbagingfor Bears": Commercial Hunting and Contemptible Conduct 248

The Face of Innocence and the Shame of Canada 253

Part III Building a Humane World

7 Cruelty and its Defenders 269

The Moral Scale and Humane Living 272

Rhetorical Camouflage: Debating Opponents of Animal Protection 277

Collateral Damage and the NRA 284

"The Agro-Industrial Complex": Harvesting Subsidies 294

"The Rising Plague" and the Veterinary Oath 302

8 The Humane Economy 312

"Creative Destruction" and Living Capital 314

Wild Neighbors 326

Chemistry and Compassion 333

Twenty-First-Century Science 338

Innovation and the Spark of Life 344

Appendix: Fifty Ways to Help Animals 351

Acknowledgments 357

Notes 363

Index 409