Born to be Wild: The Livewire Guide to Saving Animals

To us humans animals can be food or fashion, pets or pests, questers or quarry, profit or loss. It is a complex relationship and in her latest energetic outing Gellatley dissects many of its strands. She constructively savages the fur trade, blood sports, zoos and circuses, experiments and genetic engineering on animals, the pet trade, animal husbandry and slaughter, fishing and fish-farming, and abuse in the name of religion. In each scenario, Gellatley puts in the well-informed boot in good style, making a convincing case for protest against the many forms of thoughtless and intentional cruelty she highlights. She also provides plenty of protest ammunition (ideas for action, addresses for target and support) at the end of each punchy chapter and in an appendix, so equipping every sympathetic reader for the fight for a better deal for beasts. Whether or not you enjoy Gellatley's in-your-face style the rightness of her message is obvious, and the practicality of its delivery makes this an invaluable pro-animal handbook.