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With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, \u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003c\/i\u003e contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts-and-bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry--and on the dinner plate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaking A Killing\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to spark wide debate in the animal rights and anarchist movements for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Table Of Contents:\u003cbr\u003e I Taking Equality Seriously\u003cbr\u003e II Chained Commodities\u003cbr\u003e III Property, Violence, and the Roots of Oppression\u003cbr\u003e IV Animal Rights and Wrongs\u003cbr\u003e V You Cannot Buy the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Advance praise for \u003ci\u003eMaking A Killing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bob Torres'' \u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003c\/i\u003e draws a very straight line between capitalism and the oppressive system of animal agribusiness. Drawing from social anarchist theory, Torres provides a convincing argument that in order to fight animal exploitation, we must also fight capitalism and, in doing so, animal rights activists will need to reconsider their methods and redirect their focus. While his critiques of the animal rights movements'' large organizations may not earn him friends in high places, such considerations are crucial to keeping the movement on track and for preventing stagnation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work from a new voice in animal advocacy that will surely spark heated discussions amongst activists from all corners of the movement.\"--Ryan MacMichael, vegblog.org\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eIn Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, Bob Torres takes an important and timely look at the animal rights movement, calling for a synthetic approach to all oppression, human and animal. His analytical framework draws together Marxism, social anarchist theory, and an abolitionist approach to animal rights to provide a timely social analysis that will no doubt have profound effects on the animal rights movement literature.\"--Gary L. Francione\u003cbr\u003e Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Bob Torres''s socioeconomic analysis of nonhuman animal use is a welcome and important addition to the understanding of human-nonhuman relations at the beginning of the 21st century. In particular, \u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003c\/i\u003e, makes vital a contribution to understanding the role of the property status of animals and the continuing strength of various welfarist positions on the ethics--and indeed the economics--of the human utilisation of other animals. \u003ci\u003eMaking a Killing\u003c\/i\u003e will become required reading for social scientists and others interested in modern social movements and the socioeconomic forces that shape their activities and their claims-making.\"--Dr. Roger Yates, Lecturer in sociology at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This is the book I''ve been waiting for. \u003ci\u003eMaking A Killing\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare and powerful example of first-rate scholarship, a searing critique, and lively declaration of the rights of animals and humans. You will walk away from this book with a clear understanding as to why social justice movements for people must take animal rights seriously, and vice versa. Bob Torres has forever deepened my thinking about these relationships.\"--David Naguib Pellow, vegetarian, animal rights and anti-racist activist, and Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; and author of \u003ci\u003eGarbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eResisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBob Torres\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of sociology at St. Lawrence University, received his PhD from Cornell, and is co-author of \u003ci\u003eVegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World\u003c\/i\u003e. 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