Resources for change
There are many excellent articles, books and organizations that provide information and suggested strategies for ending animal suffering. Here is just a short list that gives you an overview of the many animal abuse issues that writers and activists are tackling.
Articles
Glamour Beasts The Dark Side of Elephant Captivity
Fear Factories The case for compassionate conservatism—for animals
The Zoo Debate – Do zoos have a role in the 21st Century?
Animal Exchange--AZA’s monthly newsletter--how they earmark aged animals for disposal to unsavory dealers -- end up in canned hunts, roadside zoos and even slaughtered as exotic meat
Books
Animal Rights Current Debates and New Directions edited by Cass R. Sunstein, Martha C.Nussbaum 2004 Oxford University Press
Beyond Beef, Jeremy Rifkin 1992 Penguin Books
Dominion, The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully 2002 St. Martins Press
Eternal Treblinka Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson, Lantern Books 2002
In Your Face From Actor to Animal Activist by Chris DeRose
Inhumane Society The American Way of Exploiting Animals
Dr. Michael W. Fox, DVM
Redemption The Myth of Pet Overpopulation And The No Kill Revolution In America Nathan J. Winograd
The Dreaded Comparison/Human and Animal Slavery
Marjorie Spiegel
1996 Mirror Books
The Zoo Dilemma Virginia McKenna (Author), Will Travers (Author), Jonathan Wray (Editor)
Striking at the Roots A Practical Guide to Animal Activism, Mark Hawthorne O Books 2008, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing
When Elephants Weep The Emotional Lives of Animals Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy 1995 Dell Publishing
Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows Melanie Joy, Ph.D.
Organizations
Alternatives to animal testing
Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
Replacement of Animal Procedures: Alternatives in Testing, Research, and Education
Americans Europeans Japanese for Medical Advancement
Animal Defenders International