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Illusions of Animal Rights

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Were the other reviews on this book reviews or a form of hate mail to the author. Wow! When I'm reading a book I dislike I simply put it down. I think he's on to the animal rights movement in many ways. As authors go....what do you expect from a book written by a farmer / outdoorsman, a Grisham novel? Sure the book is based on opinions. Reads as if he's based them on experience. It more or less boils down to opinions and what one believes in. The trick is knowing how and when to turn it off. Not buy throwing blood on a Ronald McDonald in front of children on the street corner or walking around nude with demands. No I apologize, that's not an opinion, that's called media attention. Are they trying to put fear in people? I think it does the exact opposite. I don't care what they say, those animal rights groups are a strange bunch. I suggest one read your local newspaper on animal rights when they can. It's like watching an episode of "COPS" or better yet Springer. You feel a whole lot better about yourself and position in life afterward.

The author's main qualification for writing this book was that he received a nasty death threat for his work as a trapper.This is understandably a very upsetting experience, which could explain why he got a bit carried away writing this book.Some prize quotes: "A hunter does not hunt animals because he hates them, any more than a doctor chooses his profession because he hates humans." (p. 12) "It is an ideology taken from the political and economic principles of Leninism, and followed to the letter by the animal rights leaders." (p. 38) "This indoctrination of our youth to the animal rights ideology can only be compared to the brainwashing of China's youth after the Communist Revolution." (p. 69) "The failure to recognize the religious aspect of animal rights lies in the fact that most people falsely recognized vegetarianism as THE RESULT [his caps] of animal rights when in reality it is the cause." (p. 95) "Vegetarianism is, and has been throughout history, the most self-serving, self-centered philosophy that I can imagine." (pp. 95-6) The 21 chapters include: "Vegetarianism--The Final Solution," "The 'Sickness' of Vegetarianism," and "Man--The Endangered Species." The erroneous claims, scantily referenced, are amusing, but for a reliable source of information about animal rights, look elsewhere.

Well-done, interesting answer to the extremest cause. The truth concerning animal rights is beautifully expressed in this very fine book.

I read this book in an attempt to understand the other side of the animal rights issue and came away frustrated by the lack of documentation and the completely contradictory nature of this book. The author states that he hunts because he loves animals but then makes it very clear that this love is based largely on greed and vanity. Too much paraphrasing and assumption with little or no documentation. This book was written for a specific audience of people already against animal rights.

One of the best books writen on the subject of the animal rights movement. This quote from the book says it all "The perversion of this religious philosophy lies in the fact that they can never eliminate, and in fact may actually increase suffering in animals. When animals are left to the hands of nature they die from predation, fighting, accident, starvation or disease. All of these can be considered, in human terms, as cruel and inhumane. Even if society made a total conversion to vegetarianism, it would still require the deaths of animals by the cutting blades, and under the wheels, of grain combines." I hope this book will soon be reprinted!

...If I were an opponent of animal rights, I would find this book, marred by semi-literate rants and confused, self-contradictory "argument," nothing but an embarrassment. If the antis are sincere in their praise of this book, animal rights advocates have nothing to fear.

Unfortunately, choosing "negative 5" stars wasn't available for this hilarious and barely readable drivel or I would have done so. The ridiculous statements in this book are too numerous to even attempt to correct. That would literally require rewriting the book sentence by sentence. However, I laughed at how on the very first page, the reader is told that the author was once the target of an assissination (sic!). Indeed. However, he fittingly offers not a shread of evidence that this ever took place, courtesy of the Manson followers or anyone else. We're just supposed to take the author's, um, word for it. Yeah, okay, sure.<P

Unfortunately there are so many anti's and bunny huggerrs on the internet so I am going to say for all the hunters, trappers, fishermen this was a good book. I totally agree with him on every issue in the book. He doesn't need a "degree" in "animal phscology" (which is a joke anyhow). the book is extreamly well writen.

Here's a perfect example of the saying "don't believe everything you read". This "book" is bound in lies, hypocrisy and greed. The author does not hold a PHD in Animal Rights Philosophy. Therefore he bases this solely on his opinions and not on facts of any kind. The 1st chapter was quite humorous, but after that it became so repetitious that it became boring. One chapter would have been sufficient to cover these hypocritical ideas, but the need to brainwash the reader by repeating the same false statements led to 160 pages of redundancy. Mr. Carman is a true predator. He is preying on human ignorance to keep his "right" to kill. His constant use of CAPITAL letters reminds me of a child stomping his foot when he's not getting what he wants. Mr. Carman is definitely not a literary genius, but then many literary geniuses are/were vegetarians. I recommend reading something by one of these compassionate authors: George Bernard Shaw, John Milton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Henry David Thoreau, Upton Sinclair, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Percy Bysshe Shelley and countless other humane authors. Mr. Carman failingly tries to connect animal advocates with Charles Manson. If there would have been any research conducted on this delusional thought for this book, he would know that the Manson Family sacrificed sheep. Also, it is widely known that one of the Manson family members tried to kill another member with a poison-laced hamburger. Vegetarians don't eat hamburgers! The truth is that the majority of serial killers like Dahmer, Son of Sam, Richard Speck, etc. had the same regard for humans and animals that Mr. Carman shows in his book. I'll end on a positive note. This "book" is good for something. If you shred it up, it makes excellent litter box filler.

A person who gets his jollies on harming a living breathing feeling creature would not think twice before harming you. Believe it. The authors of this book might as well be wrighting an editorial to a newspaper. Nothing here is based on fact or even trys to agrue their cause. They point fingers and make broad accusations throught the book. If you want an unbiased oppinion, think for yourself.