The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the worlds leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and expanding our compassion footprint. He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range of emotions, including empathy and compassion, and that they clearly know right from wrong. Driven by moral imperatives and pressing environmental realities, Bekoff offers six compelling reasons for changing the way we treat animals whether theyre in factory farms, labs, circuses, or our vanishing wilderness. The result is a well-researched, informative guide that will change animal and human lives for the better.

The Animal Manifesto is Marc Bekoffs gentle challenge that we all go a little further in extending the boundaries of our compassion toward nonhuman animals. I found it hard to resist the call of a work so brimming with awe, insight, and optimism concerning the creatures who share our world. You will too.
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States

Proof that animals are wistful, altruistic, tender, jealous, and conversational. But are these interesting facts to use to enliven a cocktail party, or do human obligations ensue when we realize that the intelligent life forms we seek in space are all around us here on earth? Marc Bekoffs challenge to humanity to relate to those on the plate and in other places no sentient being deserves to be is riveting reading that may occupy your thoughts long after the last page is turned and the lights are out.
Ingrid E. Newkirk, founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)