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C O N T E N T S No. 271 March/April 2012

ANIMALS: A NEW ETHICS

INTRODUCTION 4 THE CALL FOR CHANGE by Guest Editor Heidi Stephenson

FRONTLINE 6 ANIMAL WELFARE ACTION FROM THE GRASS ROOTS

KEYNOTES 10 THE LAST FRONTIER Tom Regan Why we all need to get ‘mad as hell’

UNDERCURRENTS 8 COMPASSION

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau 14 WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Richard Ryder If only we’d followed the path of Saint

Francis of Assisi 16 SAVINGTHE WORLD Juliet Gellatley

There’s only one diet that makes sense if you’re Green

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18 THE FINAL JOURNEY Philip Lymbery How we can all make a difference 20 CHATTEL Maureen Duffy 21 IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS Mark Gold The secret world of the killing floor 24 VIVISECTION:“THE BLACKEST OF ALL CRIMES” Jan Creamer On why we need to end all animal experimentation 28 LEARNING FROM ANIMALS Marc Bekoff On the rich, complex, inner lives of nonhuman animals 32 OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ANIMALS Jonathan Balcombe Why our treatment of animals is badly out of step with our understanding of them 34 THE ANIMAL MANIFESTO Marc Bekoff Treat us better or leave us alone!

REGULARS 1 WELCOME Satish Kumar and Heidi Stephenson 36 PIONEERS – HENRY SALT

Jon Wynne-Tyson 38 ACTION – BANNING BULLFIGHTING

Jordi Casamitjana 40 CAMPAIGNING – SAVING BADGERS Interview with Brian May 42 THE VEGAN FOODIE Andy Murray 44 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Rukmini Sekhar 46 SENSE OF PLACE Virginia McKenna 48 LETTERS

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March/April 2012 Editor’s Highlights

ARTS & CRAFTS 49 LUV SONG Benjamin Zephaniah 50 A NATURAL EMPATH Sharon Howe Expressionist Franz Marc’s unique por trayal of animals 54 ELEPHANT ART

David Ferris How Asian elephants are painting their future

REVIEWS 56 HAPPY BEINGS Jeffrey M. Masson reviews Jonathan

Balcombe’s The Exultant Ark 57 NATURE’S WAY Peter Anderson reviews Wild Justice by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce 58 THE QUESTION IS, CAN THEY SUFFER?

Kailah Eglington reviews Richard Ryder’s Speciesism, Painism and Happiness 59 AN AMERICAN EXPOSÉ Keith Akers reviews Dominion by

Matthew Scully

Bringing the environmental and animal welfare & rights movements together for the very first time, Animals: A New Ethics – The Call For Change is a special landmark issue of Resurgence

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The Last Frontier Tom Regan, who is widely hailed as the leader of the global animal rights movement says the recognition of animal rights represents the ver y last frontier of social justice – and calls on us all to get mad as hell!

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What Might Have Been Richard Ryder, who first coined the term ‘speciesism’ explores how different our treatment of animals could – and should – have been

60 FINS IN FOCUS Barbara Gardner reviews Do Fish Feel Pain? by Victoria Braithwaite 61 A SHARED HISTORY

Justin Kerswell reviews Pig by Brett Mizelle 62 THEANIMAL RIGHTS ‘BIBLE’ Gill Maltby and Richard

Mountford review Peter Singer’s classic Animal Liberation 64 HERITAGE OF HOPE

Rachel Hevesi reviews Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy 65 IN MY OWNWORDS

Ingrid E. Newkirk explains the key message of her audio CD; namely that environmentalism must include animals too

MEMBERS 66 MEMBERS’ PAGE Jo Eglen on knitting ‘jumpers’ for ex-batter y hens; Merlyn Chesterman meets Beth Tyler-King and her rescue fox, Muffy 67 SHOP 68 ANIMAL RESOURCE PAGE 69 ADVERTS

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If Slaughterhouses had Glass Walls Mark Gold, former director of Animal Aid, exposes the secret world of the killing floor and warns that we are all complicit when we turn a blind eye

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The Animal Manifesto Treat us better or leave us alone!

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A Natural Empath Animal campaigner Sharon Howe profiles Franz Marc – the German expressionist painter, animal lover and founder of the celebrated Blue Rider group Susan Clark @suzresurgence

Welsh Mountain Sheep, etching & aquatint, by Julia Finzel www.juliafinzel.co.uk

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