Posted May 10, 2012 by peta2 staff
Whether you’re reading for a school assignment or because you just want to be more informed, summer is a great time for you to kick back with a good book! So if you’re on the beach, in your backyard, or in your fam’s back seat during a road trip, peta2 wants to help you find time to read some animal rights essentials.
Introducing the peta2 Book Club! We’ll review a book every week for the next few months and give you 750 points for sending us a review at StreetTeam@peta2.com. Neat, right? And it’s a great way to cash in on the free shirts, hoodies, and other swag offered at Street Team Goods!
First up is one of my faves: Slaughterhouse by Gail A. Eisnitz.
I read this book when I was 16—back when I thought that animals on factory farms were protected by some all-encompassing law that would prevent anything too bad. I was wrong. Slaughterhouse goes deep inside the meat industry—into slaughterhouses—details the lack of U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, and contains interviews and quotes from slaughterhouse workers and officials. This book paints the picture clearly: Animals have little protection (if any), slaughterhouses receive little oversight, and the meat industry is filthy, cruel, and corrupt.
No one in the meat industry is looking out for animals, and the government simply doesn’t care how many animals are alive when they’re hacked apart or how hard they struggle as they’re forced down the slaughter line. This book inspired me to join the fight for animal liberation and even inspired my boyfriend at the time to go vegan! Slaughterhouse is powerful, honest, and heartbreaking—a must-read for anyone who wants to know the truth about what happens behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses across the country.
Send your review to StreetTeam@peta2.com (and make sure that it’s your own—we check!) for 750 points.
peta2 Street Team Coordinator + lover of vegan food, cats, animal rights, Dawson's Creek, and Harry Potter.
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I love animals about as much as rock, heavy metal, tea, and coffee. Hoping to make a difference and help animals through PETA!!!
I want to get into marketing but not have to rely on people which have different morals and worldviews than I do to hire me. While I'm figuring this out, I want to show everyone what I believe in and spur them into action against injustices.
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313 days ago
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i hate that my school doesnt let me reade the books i want in the summer time love to read looking forward to reading this and many more like it.
379 days ago
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I absolutely LOVE that book.
380 days ago
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I love this idea <3 I haven't read this one yet but I'm just now getting into reading these types of books so I probably will soon
I'm right in the middle of "Free the Animals" right now… I was expecting such an exciting book from Ingrid Newkirk!! I can't put it down 
380 days ago
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*wasn’t
380 days ago
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well i already read it and send the report review!!!:) and that book change my mind and heart and my whole life. and that book makes me go vegan!!!:) ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥