A comprehensive overview of human and environmental exploitation of animals including those used for experimental purposes, product testing, and animals raised for food or clothing or used in the entertainment business.
The wife, sons, and daughter-in-law of Noe, a man touched by God, describe their struggles to understand and to help when Noe instructs them to gather wood and animals and prepare to spend an unspecified amount of time living together trapped on an ark.
Discusses the use of animals for food, covering pigs, poultry, beef cattle and dairy cows, sheep and goats, exotic food animals, and fish farms, and discusses the ethical debates surrounding these practices.
Articles present opposing viewpoints on such Columbus-related issues as the motives of the conquistadors, treatment of the Indians, and twentieth-century views of Columbus.
When frogs about to lay their spawn discover that Farmer Jessop's pond has been filled in, young animal lover Mandy Hope--child of two veterinarians--tries to save the tadpoles by suggesting the school pond as an alternative.