Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the HolocaustThis book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book (Chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part (Chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times. The last part of the book (Chapters 6-8) profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself. The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her foreword, the Preface and Afterword, excerpts from the book, chapter synopses, and an international list of supporters can be found on the book's website at: www.powerfulbook.com |
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... Once the children were identified and institutionalized , doctors and nurses either starved them to death , or gave them lethal doses of lumi- nal ( a sedative ) , veronal ( sleeping pills ) , morphine , or scopolamine . If a child ...
... Once a steer enters the chute , his fate is sealed . When he emerges out of the chute into the plant , he's immediately " zapped by a pneumatic gun that fires a yellow pellet into its skull " ( with Skaggs the steer is always an " it ...
... once he almost got killed when a small English plane swooped down on the cabin where he was cooking some food over an open fire with his shirt off because it was very hot . The machine gun fire shot the frying pan out of his hand and ...
Contents
The Great Divide Human Supremacy and the Exploitation of Animals | 3 |
Wolves Apes Pigs Rats Vermin Vilifying Others as Animals | 27 |
Master Species Master Race | 51 |
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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust Charles Patterson Limited preview - 2002 |
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A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann Matthias Beier Limited preview - 2006 |
The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities Karen Davis No preview available - 2005 |