Welcome Home: An Animal Rights Perspective on Living with Dogs & Cats - Softcover

Winograd, Nathan J; Winograd, Jennifer J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542725216 ISBN 13: 9781542725217

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

For the vast majority of people, the bond they share with their dog or cat companion is a familial one, born of love and mutual affection. Indeed, interspecies relationships in the world are not rare and they are relationships that humans generally celebrate as evidence of the interconnectedness and beauty of life on Earth. But according to the loudest voices in the American animal rights movement today, such relationships are incompatible with the rights of animals when one of the parties is a human being. Living with companion dogs and cats is, according to this view, a “necessary evil” at best; at worst, it is a relationship between “master” and “slave” and those animals would be better off if they did not exist at all. With the belief that the “solution” to all dog and cat suffering lies in their eventual extinction, the contemporary animal rights movement not only preaches that the lives of dogs and cats are dispensable, their deliberate elimination of no moral consequence, their disappearance from our planet no tragedy to mourn, it embraces an agenda to which no other rights-based movement in history has ever subscribed: the deliberate annihilation of those it has pledged to protect.Welcome Home explores the dangers to animals posed by this misanthropic, pro-extinction position, challenging the logical fallacies, factual inaccuracies, and ethical compromises upon which it is based. In its place, Welcome Home offers an alternative animal rights philosophy, an optimistic and hopeful approach which champions the rights of dogs and cats to the many emotional, physical, and evolutionary advantages conferred by their cohabitation with humans, but, most important of all, the right to their very existence.

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About the Author

Nathan Winograd is a graduate of Stanford Law School and a former criminal prosecutor and corporate attorney. A vegan for 25 years, he has helped write animal protection legislation, spoken internationally on animal issues, created successful No Kill programs, and has consulted with animal protection groups all over the world. Under his leadership, Tompkins County, New York, became the first No Kill community in the United States. He is currently the National Director of the No Kill Advocacy Center. In addition to Welcome Home, Nathan is the author of an award-winning documentary film and five other books: Redemption, Irreconcilable Differences, Friendly Fire, Redemption Film Companion, and All American Vegan. Jennifer Winograd is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and has a Master’s in the Humanities from Dominican University. A vegan for almost 30 years, she has worked with some of the largest animal rights organizations in the country, coordinating litigation, legislation, vegan advocacy, and sanctuary work. She is a founding Board Member of the No Kill Advocacy Center and manages all its publications. In addition to Welcome Home, Jennifer is the author of three other books, Friendly Fire, Redemption Film Companion, and All American Vegan. The Winograds live in the San Francisco Bay Area with two kids and several animal companions. Learn more at nathanwinograd.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542725216
• ISBN 13: 9781542725217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 119