Fair Treatment For Animals - Ernest Bell

Fair Treatment For Animals

Ernest Bell

  • Edition: First Edition
  • Publisher: George Bell & Sons Ltd., London
  • Published: 1927
  • Length: 298
  • Format: Hardback

Summary

In Fair Treatment for Animals, Ernest Bell brings together 84 thought-provoking articles originally published in The Animals’ Friend between 1902 and 1927. This powerful volume offers a deep dive into the pressing issues of animal welfare and rights, addressing topics such as vivisection, cruel sports, performing animals, zoological gardens, and humane education. Bell’s reflections on the economic, social, and theological aspects of animal treatment remain as relevant today as when they were first penned.

Bell’s writing, rich with philosophical debates and ethical arguments, serves as an indispensable resource for humane workers, speakers, and writers alike. Each article, though written in response to incidents of the past, addresses attitudes and justifications for cruelty that continue to persist. His essays on topics like “The Progress of Humane Diet,” “Why Animals Exist,” and “Mutual Aid Amongst Animals” challenge conventional views, offering an arsenal of ideas that humanitarian advocates can draw upon in their fight for fair treatment of animals.

As noted by one reviewer, Bell is more than a humanitarian leader—he is a guiding light for the movement, having dedicated over 50 years to this cause. His work in Fair Treatment for Animals is not only a history of the movement but also a vital compendium of arguments and ideas that should have a place on every humane advocate’s shelf.

An essential read for anyone dedicated to animal rights, this volume continues to inspire, offering insights that endure and provoke change.

Content

  • For What Do Animals Exist?
  • Sympathy in Animals
  • Man's Apathy Towards Reform
  • The Chaining of Dogs
  • "The Gladsome Life"
  • Mutual Aid Among Animals
  • Our Attitude
  • Cruelty to Animals and Theology
  • Vivisecotors' Logic
  • One Large Society – No Overlapping
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Telepathy Between Man and Animals
  • We and Other Nations
  • The Eton Hare Hunt
  • Can Animals Suffer?
  • Heaven-Sent Beasts of Burden
  • The "Manliness" of Sport
  • Fond of Animals
  • The Economics of Hunting
  • The Captive and the Free
  • Women's Franchise
  • The Uses of the Imagination
  • The Results of Wrong Doing
  • "School Pets as a Help to Moral Training"
  • Record Breakers
  • The Medical Profession and Vivisection
  • True Education
  • The Love of Animals and Men
  • Horse Racing a Cruel Sport
  • What is Cruelty?
  • Is it Cruel to Keep Birds in Cages?
  • Dog Stories
  • Is Nature Cruel?
  • What are the Rights of Animals
  • Man's Attitude Towards the Other Animals
  • Thoroughness
  • Juvenile Cruelty
  • Cats and Dogs
  • Blood Sports Again
  • The Sense of Direction
  • The Play of Animals
  • An After-Life for Animals
  • The Point of View
  • Animal Autobiographies
  • Money Circulated by Hunting
  • Prayers for Animals
  • From Jungle to Zoo
  • Reason in Men and Animals
  • Human and Sub-Human
  • Calling Names
  • Unconscious Influence
  • Women and Their Furs
  • Humaneness as a Matter of Sex
  • The Lethal Box – Its Use and Abuse
  • The Morality of Zoological Gardens
  • Unreasoning Man
  • Killing Lions
  • Bling to Their Own Interests
  • Comic and Horrible
  • Modern Medical Science
  • Demoralisng Pictures
  • The Vivisectors' Humanity and Logic
  • Do Animals Understand Death?
  • Scientific Research Run Mad
  • Dogs: Past, Present, and Future
  • The Church and the Circus
  • Sublime or Ridiculous?
  • Can Animals Think?
  • "Christian Virtues" in Animals
  • A Humane Education Society for Great Britain
  • Why Sport Must Be Cruel
  • The Fox Hunt
  • War Memorials
  • Rabbit-Coursing
  • Apologists for Cruelty
  • Plato and the Elephant
  • The Vegetarian Home for Children
  • Underpaid Humane Workers
  • The Sportsman's Plea for the Fox-Hunt
  • The Fox and His Woes
  • The Sportsman's Mentality
  • Imprisoned Animals
  • Vivisection
  • Progress of the Humane Diet Movement

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