By Wayne Pacelle
ISBN-10: 0062389661
ISBN-13: 9780062389664
A significant new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a pragmatic roadmap for a way we will be able to use to advertise the welfare of all residing creatures, from the well known animal-rights recommend Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the us and ny occasions bestselling writer of The Bond.
In the mid-nineteenth century, New Bedford, Massachusetts used to be the whaling capital of the realm. A half-gallon of sperm oil price nearly $1,400 in brand new money, and whale populations have been hunted to close extinction for revenue. yet with the arrival of fossil fuels, the whaling collapsed, and this day, the world round New Bedford is as a substitute referred to as the best areas on the earth for whale watching.
This transformation is emblematic of a brand new type of financial revolution, person who has the facility to rework the way forward for animal welfare. within the Humane economic climate, Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Human Society of the United...
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Dr. Gary Michelson, an innovative patent holder and a billionaire who has devoted a large share of his wealth to helping animals, is providing more than $10 million a year through the Found Animals Foundation to develop a single-dose, nonsurgical sterilant for male and female cats and dogs. Researchers have already developed contraceptive vaccines for more than seventy wildlife species. Thus far, though, scientists have been unable to develop a vaccine for dogs and cats because of their species’ complex reproductive physiology.
Zoe’s a character. She tears around the apartment without provocation. When I come home, she greets me at the door each evening and tries to sneak out to explore the hallway. I let her have her little taste of freedom, before I grab her and bring her back inside. In the apartment, she’s got plenty to keep her busy. Zoe has a big box full of toys, and when we take them out, she will play without stopping—she’s the only cat I’ve known who pants because she’s winded from all the stalking, pouncing, and racing around.
But what if the HSUS and Lost Dog and other groups could simply give animals an injection, just like the local CVS offers customers a vaccine in advance of flu season? Owners and their pets could then conveniently go in and out of a site at low cost and with no licensed veterinarian required. More than half a century after the birth control pill first became available for women, there’s no reason to think that something similar cannot be devised to regulate conception in animals. And if it were affordable and widely available, that treatment would change the equation, especially in underserved communities, and certainly for the tens of millions of reproductively intact feral cats that roam every community in the United States.
The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals by Wayne Pacelle
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