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Title: Animalscam: The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights by Kathleen Marquardt, Herbert M. Levine, Mark Larochelle ISBN: 0-89526-498-6 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.57 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Open Eyed Reporting
Comment: This book opens up showing the abuses of many of the big name Animal Rights groups. The vast majority of funds raised are not used towards benefiting animals by research or health funds but actually go back to programs to raise even more money. These figures are not released by these various groups because it would by common sense cease people sending them more funding.

A value judgement is given that human life has greater importance and to lose sight of this can only lead us to a world where groups like the Taliban can kill off women because they have no value. Humans are the present reigning species and this book does not suggest that we abuse or neglect animals just that we utilize our funds with information. To believe that you are giving to a charity for the welfare of animals and instead find out that the money goes to a select group whose salaries are in the top 5% and also that the charity funds and defends voilence and destruction of research is very disheartening. This book provides a vast number of source for all claims it puts forth, similar to the Susan Faludi book "Backlash".
Please keep your minds open and don't be lazy thinkers when you gift your funds to organizations.

Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth reading
Comment: I'm truly on the fence about a number of animal rights/animal welfare issues, and this book did nothing to help me clarify my opinions. The author defends virtually every practice anyone protests in the name of animal rights - from meat-eating and medical research, to hunting and fur-wearing and cosmetic testing - with "but they're just animals!" as her sole argument.

Rating: 1
Summary: Laughable
Comment: There is certainly a reason that Kathleen's Animalscam is currently out of print: this book was a sorry collection of laughable excuses as to why human beings ought to be able to continue slaughtering, torturing, and exploiting animals for whatever trivial reasons they like. A copy of this book is currently available in my own public library, and I've a good mind to check it out and 'lose' it conveniently.

What disturbed me most about Animalscam was the section on animals as they are used for 'entertainment'. The author stresses that circuses animals are 'treated well' by their handlers, and that there is no good reason why they should be liberated from their miserable lives in ridiculous clothes, as they perform meaningless tricks for thousands of humans that will forget it all in the space of a week. I don't dispute the fact that many circus handlers are kind to their animals (although many are NOT), but what the author fails to mention are the horrendous experiences that many of these animals must suffer through when they are captured from their native countries and 'broken' by natives, all to make them easier to handle for shipping to the Americas. A chilling documentary shown recently on the Discovery Channel aired just such an experience; I remember watching in horror as a small African elephant was strapped down and beaten repeatedly by callous workers to show the animal who 'was in charge'. The animal's destination: circus life in the United States.