Animal Rights In South Africa

by Michele Pickover

The approach is to examine a number of fields - animals as food, the trade in wildlife, trophy hunting and vivisection - and by uncovering what is happening beyond the public eye and by examining how the various actors and interest groups, including the government and animal protection groups, are responding, to tease out the issues involved.

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[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

"...the root cause of oppression is treating other sentient beings as objects. Nowhere is this more clearly reflected than in our treatment of animals" (p168). Pickover points out that South Africa, with its history of apartheid oppression, has great problems in treating animals with decency. Quoting a South African animals right activist she points out that "...the way we treat animals has all the hallmarks of apartheid - prejudice, callous disregard for suffering and a misguided sense of supremacy" (p141). A riveting read that begs for updated and deeper exposition.