The Animal Activist’s Handbook
Matt Ball from Vegan Outreach and Bruce Friedrich from PETA wrote what looks like a fantastic handbook for animal activists. If any of you have seen these two men speak, then you know they are at the top of their field and are experts at helping animals from the ground up.
This handbook contains personal anectdotes, tools for advocacy, and arguments for vegetarianism. They have some of the biggest names in AR endorcing them including the grand daddy of animal rights, Peter Singer:
The Animal Activist’s Handbook punches way above its weight. Rarely have so few pages contained so much intelligence and good advice. Get it, read it, and act on it. Now.
—Peter Singer
The book is not without a little bit of controversy and will probably peeve a few purists. The message this book conveys is about doing the most good for animals, not about being a holier than thou vegan. (I myself have met a few purists who have trouble seeing the big picture) In my opinion, Matt and Bruce are big picture people – the most beneficial kind for any cause. Here are two examples on the small controversy’s from the Huffington Post.
they caution that if “we’re at a restaurant and there’s a veggie burger on the menu but we give the server the third degree about the ingredients or about how it was cooked, we’re most likely doing more harm than good.” They even go so far as to insist that it can be a good thing for vegetarians to date meat-eaters!
I would recommend buying the book and upping your level of activism. We all need a punch in the rear sometimes to get us out there and active. And you couldn’t ask for a more thoughtful kick in the rear than a book from these men.
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