Table of Contents

Dedication Prologue: A Brief History and a Call to Arms Chapter One: How This Became My Life A Goat Named Pepa An Animated Activist A Wolf from Gubbio and a Conference with the Birds A Personal Compulsion toward Universal Justice Chapter Two: Speciesism: The Final Frontier White Supremacy is a Myth Male Supremacy is a Myth Human Supremacy is a Myth Intersectionality: Tying it All Together Chapter Three: Lifting the Veil Humanewashing: Why 'Grass-fed,' 'Cage-free,' and All of These Other Buzzwords Miss the Point Entirely We All 'Drank the Kool-Aid' with Respect to Animal Testing Cruelty isn't Fun Married to Our Own Convenience Chapter Four: Putting Animal Liberation on the Public Agenda Animal Liberation Victoria Direct Action Everywhere Nonhuman Rights Project Animal Legal Defense Fund Low-Hanging Fruit: Political Appropriation of AR Sentiments What Works vs. What Doesn't Chapter Five: Where to Draw the Line Us vs. Them: Pests Nirvana was Being Sarcastic: The Truth about Fish Pets: Captivity or Mercy

About the Author

Saryta Rodriguez is an editor, social justice advocate, and author. After working at David Black Literary Agency and Penguin Group, she headed west and founded her own editing and consulting firm, Brave New Publishing. She spent a year in Phoenix, Arizona, where she joined PALS (Phoenix Animal Liberation Squad), and then joined Direct Action Everywhere in Oakland, where she was an active member until September 2015. She currently divides her time between New York and California.