Advance Praise

In Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, Bob Torres takes an important and timely look at the animal rights movement, calling for a synthetic approach to all human oppression, human and nonhuman. His analytical framework draws together Marxism, social anarchist theory, and an abolitionist approach to animal rights to provide a timely social analysis that will no doubt have profound effects on the animal rights movement and its associated literature. --Gary L. Francione Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University

Bob Torres' "Making a Killing" draws a very straight line between capitalism and the oppressive system of animal agribusiness. Drawing from social anarchist theory, Torres provides a convincing argument that in order to fight animal exploitation, we must also fight capitalism and, in doing so, animal rights activists will need to reconsider their methods and redirect their focus. While his critiques of the animal rights movements' large organizations may not earn him friends in high places, such considerations are crucial to keeping the movement on track and preventing stagnation "Making a Killing" is an important work from a new voice in animal advocacy that will surely spark heated discussions amongst activists from all corners of the movement. - Ryan MacMichael, vegblog.org

This is the book I've been waiting for. "Making a Killing" is a rare and powerful example of first-rate scholarship, a searing critique, and lively declaration of the rights of animals and humans. You will walk away from this book with a clear understanding as to why social justice movements for people must take animal rights seriously, and vice versa. Bob Torres has forever deepened my thinking about these relationships." -David Naguib Pellow, vegetarian, animal rights and anti-racist activist, and Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; and author of "Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago" and "Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice"

Bob Torres's socioeconomic analysis of nonhuman animal use is a welcome and important addition to the understanding of human-nonhuman relations at the beginning of the 21st century. In particular, Making a Killing, makes vital a contribution to understanding the role of the property status of animals and the continuing strength of various welfarist positions on the ethics – and indeed the economics - of the human utilisation of other animals. Making a Killing will become required reading for social scientists and others interested in modern social movements and the socioeconomic forces that shape their activities and their claims-making. --Dr. Roger Yates. Lecturer in sociology at University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.