There
are many books and articles discussing institutional abuses
against animals and the ethical principles this violates.
Some good general sources are:
Peter
Singer, Animal
Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of
Animals -- perhaps the
most influential book of the animal advocacy movement;
focuses primarily on ethics, vivisection (animal
experimentation), and factory farming
Tom
Regan, The
Struggle for Animal Rights --
well-written, covers diverse ethical issues
Marjorie
Spiegel, The
Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal
Slavery
Jeffrey
Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy,
When
Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of
Animals
Animals on
Farms
Jim
Mason and Peter Singer,
Animal
Factories
Vegetarianism
Billy
Ray Boyd, For
the Vegetarian in You
Keith
Akers, A
Vegetarian Sourcebook
(Vegetarian Press, P.O. Box 61273, Denver, CO
80206)
Hunting
Ron
Baker, The
American Hunting Myth
Vegan
Outreach
Vegetarian
Source, Inc.
Vegetarian
Resource Center
Animal
rights sites on the 'net
Satya,
the magazine
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