Learn the Issues

Need sources for a project? Want to hold your own in an argument? Need to better understand the system of oppression so you can undermine and destroy it? Then read these books to get the facts. Submit a review of any of the following books you read and we’ll give you 100 peta2 Street Team points for each one.

Essential Reading

• Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. If you don’t have time to read the whole book, read All Animals Are Equal, which contains extensive excerpts of it.
• PETA’s Guide to Compassionate Living by PETA

Animal Appreciation

• When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
• The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animalsby Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Animal Rights Tie-Ins With Other Social-Justice Movements

• Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson
• Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
• The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery by Marjorie Spiegel

Cookbooks

• How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Dietby Sarah Kramer, Tanya Barnard
• Recipes for the Hungover

Factory Farming/Veganism

• The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our Worldby John Robbins
• Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meatby Howard F. Lyman
• Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail Eisnitz
• Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Eric Marcus

General Animal Rights

• Animal Rights FAQs
• Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
• Free the Animals! by Ingrid E. Newkirk
• Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life and Avoid Cruelty to Animals by Ingrid E. Newkirk
• PETA Factsheets

Hunting

• The American Hunting Myth by Ron Baker
• FundForAnimals.org

Experimentation

• Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame by Moneim Fadali, M.D.
• Sacred Cows and Golden Geese by C. Ray Greek, M.D., and Jean Swingle Greek, D.V.M.
• Specious Science: How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans by C. Ray Greek, M.D., and Jean Swingle Greek, D.V.M.
• StopAnimalTests.com