Film and Book Recommendations
FILMS and VIDEOS
Arctic Tale (2007) – See the trailer here
Dark Waters Raising (2006) - See the trailer here
Death on a Factory Farm: Animal Rights on Trial, HBO (2009) – See the trailer here
Earthlings (2003) – See the trailer here
Food, Inc. (2009) – See the trailer here
Food Matters (2008) – See the trailer here
Life (2010) – See highlights here
March of the Penguins (2005) – See the trailer here
Nature, PBS series: “Why We Love Cats and Dogs” (2009) - See the full episode here
Peaceable Kingdom (2004) – See the trailer here
Planet Earth, BBC series – See highlights here
Sharkwater (2007) – See the trailer here
The Cove (2009) – See the trailer here
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) – See the trailer here
The Witness: A Tribe of Heart Documentary (2000) – See the trailer here
Winged Migration (2001) – See the trailer here
Wolves: A Legend Returns to Yellowstone (2007) – See the trailer here
AUTHORS and BOOKS
Alicia Silverstone
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet (2009)
Amy Stewart
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms (2004)
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007)
Carol J. Adams
The Sexual Politics of Meat
David S. Wilcove
No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations (2008)
Erik Marcus
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money (2005)
Erin E. Williams, Margo Demello
Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection (2007)
Eugene Linden
The Octopus and the Orangutan (2002)
Frances Moore Lappe
Diet for a Small Planet (1971, 2008)
Gene Baur
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food (2008)
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Altruistic Armadillos and Zenlike Zebras (2006)
Dogs Have the Strangest Friends: Other True Stories of Animal Feelings (2000)
Dogs Never Lie About Love (1998)
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom (2005)
The Cat Who Came in from the Cold: A Fable (2004)
The Evolution of Fatherhood (2004)
The Face on Your Plate (2009)
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cat: A Journey into the Feline Heart (2002)
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals(2003)
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (1995)
Joe Camp
The Soul of a Horse (2008)
Karen Dawn
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (2008)
Kathy Freston
Quantum Wellness (2008)
Lucy Spelman
The Rhino With Glue-On Shoes (2008)
Mark Bekoff
Animals at Play (2008)
Animals Matter (2007)
Coyotes (2001)
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare (1998)
Minding Animals (2002)
Readings in Animals Cognition (1995)
Species of Mind (1997)
Strolling with our Kin (2000)
The Cognitive Animal (2002)
The Emotional Lives of Animals (2007)
The Smile of a Dolphin (2000)
Mark Bekoff, Jane Goodall
The Ten Trusts (2002)
Mark Bekoff, Jessica Pierce
Wild Justice (2009)
Mark Bekoff, et. al.
Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (2007)
How Animals Talk (2005)
Mark Hawthorne
Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008)
Marti Kheel
Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals and A Call to Mercy (2003)
Melanie Joy
Strategic Action for Animals
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
Michael Pollan
All articles: http://www.michaelpollan.com/write.php
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Monica Diedrich
What Animals Tell Me (2002)
Nathan Winograd
Redemption:The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America
Nick Trout
Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon (2008)
Nicolette Hahn Niman
Righteous Pork Chop (2009)
Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human (2008)
Peter Singer, Paola Cavalieri
The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity
Roger Fouts
Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are (1997)
Satish Kumar
You Are Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence
Spiritual Compass: The Three Qualities of Life
Susan Chernak McElroy
Animals as teacher and Healer (1996)
Sy Montgomery
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Ted Andrews
Animal Wise
The Animal Speak Workbook.
Tim Friend
Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language (2004)
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile
Zoe Weil
Most Good, Least Harm, Above All, Be Kind,
The Power and Promise of Humane Education.