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This is Nota's review of "Animal Rights" by Patience Coster, I rated it 1 star

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I picked this up for how short it is. It is a dispassionate account on the subject of animal rights where it feels like that animal abusers are given more consideration than animal activists. There are parts which frame animal abuse as something not that bad, it’s just that the author hasn’t done enough research, and doesn’t know enough about the practices. For example the animal testing part completely disregards that animal tests fail over 90% of the time. It doesn’t mention the alternatives to animal testing, and how much more successful they are. It is a shallow dive into the subject. It reads like a wikipedia article, and I do think the wiki contains a lot of this information. I thought this might be a cool pamphlet to give out to people at a party at first, but I did not realise that animal rights are not taken that seriously then. This book mostly is focused on animal welfare, but even fails to really drive in that welfare.

Animal rights is a sensitive subject, involving countless lives, the biggest holocaust in human existence so I don’t really want the information regarding it to be presented in a less passionate way than chat GPT could muster. Perhaps picking this up would be a right step for some people to start caring about the animals, but I think it could also make a lot of people think that the subject is not as serious as it is. I hope the author gets more curious, and takes the steps to research more about animal rights as it is such an important topic, but I cannot recommend anyone to read this.

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