Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

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Macmillan, 15 окт. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 434
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26

In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion.

Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong.

In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an organization whose wealthier members will pay up to $20,000 to hunt an elephant, a lion or another animal, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens. We attend the annual International Whaling Commission conference, where the skewed politics of the whaling industry come to light, and the focus is on developing more lethal, but not more merciful, methods of harvesting "living marine resources." And we visit a gargantuan American "factory farm," where animals are treated as mere product and raised in conditions of mass confinement, bred for passivity and bulk, inseminated and fed with machines, kept in tightly confined stalls for the entirety of their lives, and slaughtered in a way that maximizes profits and minimizes decency.

Throughout Dominion, Scully counters the hypocritical arguments that attempt to excuse animal abuse: from those who argue that the Bible's message permits mankind to use animals as it pleases, to the hunter's argument that through hunting animal populations are controlled, to the popular and "scientifically proven" notions that animals cannot feel pain, experience no emotions, and are not conscious of their own lives.

The result is eye opening, painful and infuriating, insightful and rewarding. Dominion is a plea for human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the government down to the individual. Matthew Scully has created a groundbreaking work, a book of lasting power and importance for all of us.

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INTRODUCTION
ix
THE THINGS THAT ARE
1
MERE PAIN
2
INTO YOUR HANDS
11
PRACTICAL ETHICS
20
RECKLESS DIVINE CRUELTY
24
THIS LOVELY WORLD
28
TASTY NIBBLES
36
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
169
BRAVE FISH
177
SANCTUARY
186
THE LAWS
191
UNKNOWABLE TERRITORY
194
THE MASQUERADE
200
WANT NUT
209
THINKING ABOUT THOUGHTS
217

THE SHOOTING FIELD
47
SKINS AND BONES
49
TAKE CHARGE
52
FAIR CHASE
56
THE DEER FACTORY
62
MEN OF INFLUENCE
67
A SPOT OF PLAINS GAME
72
THE CURATORS
77
NIMRODCOM
81
MATTERS OF CONSEQUENCE
88
GO FORTH
90
THE LORD OF MERCY
95
LAISSEZFAIRE
100
IMPERATIVE COOKING
108
DEEPER THAN CHOICE
112
THE PROSPERITY BIBLE
120
BACK AT THE RANCH
126
THINK A SECOND TIME
130
MILD QUALMS
135
RICHES OF THE SEA
141
SAVE THE WHALES FOR DINNER
142
COLLECTIVE GUILT
146
TIME TO DEATH
150
WISE USE
155
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
161
PROFOUND RESPECT
229
THE STRESS GENE
235
KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT LOVE
241
DELIVER ME FROM MY NECESSITIES
247
MANAGERIAL INTENSITY
249
THE NEW AGRICULTURE
253
LEAN GENERATION
263
FOR THEIR OWN GOOD
269
PIECE BY PIECE
277
NATURE AND NATURES GOD
287
NECESSARY EVILS
288
THOU SHALT NOT
294
SELFEVIDENT TRUTHS
299
THE MIRROR TEST
305
A CRIME AGAINST NATURE
312
A FRESH START
325
AN OBLIGATION OF JUSTICE
337
JUSTICE AND MERCY
350
GAME BUTCHERY
353
AN ABOMINATION
360
NOAHS CHOICE
368
SINNING BRAVELY
375
THEY KNOW PAIN
389
THE GOOD SHEPHERDS
393
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Matthew Scully served from January 2001 until June 2002 as special assistant and senior speechwriter to President George W. Bush. He worked in the president's 2000 campaign and has also written for vice presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, and for the late Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey. A former Literary Editor for the "National Review," he has been published in various periodicals including "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," and "The Wall Street Journal." He lives with his wife, Emmanuelle, in northern Virginia.

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