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"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.
- Sales Rank: #242524 in Books
- Published on: 2003-10-01
- Released on: 2003-10-08
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, 1.30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 434 pages
From Library Journal
This is one of the best books ever written on the subject of animal welfare. Scully, a journalist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, chooses to fight on his own ground, and he rightly argues that the important thing is not insisting upon equal "rights" for animals but in treating them with a modicum of respect and dignity. His book is as close as a philosophy can come to representing "animal rights" goals while not proclaiming animals to be equal in status to humans, as do classic works like Peter Singer's Animal Liberation. As a journalist, Scully personally investigated several major animal industries, including those of hunting, whaling, and factory farming. He asks penetrating questions and shows the logical and political inconsistencies used to defend cruel industries. Although some may balk at the author's sarcasm, it adds an emotional element to his unequaled depth of insight. Scully has a remarkable grasp of the issues and a unique perspective on our societal treatment of animals. Every library should purchase this book. Highly recommended.
John Kistler, Utah State Univ. Lib., Logan
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Increasing media coverage of troubling trends in animal mistreatment, from genetic cloning and experimentation to factory farming, has heightened the moral imperative to examine how humans use and treat animals, according to Scully. He quotes a wide variety of sources--including the Bible, other famous literature, debates in British parliament, and conversations at a hunter's convention--to provide a wide spectrum of views on the uses of animals and whether they possess consciousness and the ability to feel pain. Scully takes note of our arbitrary, often contradictory approach to the treatment of animals, from objections to experimentation on animals and bans on wearing furs to the blithe consumption of burgers and steaks. He traces the history of the animal rights movement and its philosophical underpinnings and argues for a balance between the cruel and cavalier treatment of animals and the more radical notions of the animal rights movement. Scully is sensitive and insightful without being sentimental. Vanessa Bush
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
“Scully's riveting account... shows how unspeakable and systematic animal cruelty is the currency of a soulless industry that has shattered American rural communities, poisoned our soils, air, and water, made family farmers an endangered species, and undermined our democracy. Scully's book gently questions whether we can foster human dignity in a society that treats other sentient beings as production units.” ―Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Matthew Scully has set forth a case - in a wry and riveting manner - that will resonate with any reader who values logical reasoning and ethical conduct. I expect that Dominion will be the most influential book on animal protection in the last twenty-five years.” ―Wayne Pacelle, Senior Vice President, The Humane Society of the United States
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392 of 426 people found the following review helpful.
Dominion - A Powerful Pen Decries the Suffering of Animals
By Karen Dawn
Matthew Scully has written a beautiful book in which he bases his argument for animal protection not on rights, liberation, or ethics, but on mercy. He tells us, "We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter the world, from our farms, to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike."
His argument is compelling.
Scully takes us into the world of Safari Club where his disgust is apparent to us and likely to be shared by all decent people reading his description. He includes a chapter on the impotent, sad, joke that is the International Whaling Commission. His chapter on factory farming and slaughterhouses is no less hard-hitting; he describes a state of the art farm where he found sows wounded, sickly, and some dead, housed in tiny gestation crates, unable to move. He writes about slaughterhouses where production speeds make the stunning of all animals impossible to achieve; the result is that many animals, every day, are hacked up or dropped into scalding water kicking and screaming.
Though other areas of abuse may not receive whole chapters, most get some attention. We read about a horrifying mass dolphin slaughter and learn that a few animals, rather than being killed, are allowed "to live out their days at a place called Izumito Sea Paradise, delighting crowds with their tricks and play." We are told that baby elephants used in circuses and other exotic animals found in the pet trade are acquired in a similar fashion. We read about the sad lives of circus elephants and learn that Ringling Brothers' is supporting efforts to lift the ban on ivory sales. There is a terrific section on the excesses of and inexcusable cruelties visited upon animals in biomedical research.
Other issues are covered briefly: Scully mentions that many zoos sell sick or elderly animals to hunting ranches. He refers to bear bile farming, discusses bow hunting, and he offers some caustic comment on fur as fashion.
Now I share my disappointments:
Though Scully's arguments for vegetarianism are strong, he writes off veganism with "Using animals for milk and wool and the like is perfectly acceptable provided they and their young are treated humanely, as they are on smaller farms." (P. 28.)
Perhaps Scully, like many vegetarians, has failed to notice that the fate of the dairy cow is the same as the fate of the beef cow or steer, regardless of the size of the farm; approximately eighty percent of hamburger meat in the US comes from dairy cows. And the life of a dairy cow includes much suffering regardless of the size of the farm. Scully quotes Temple Grandin: "When cows are weaned, both the cows and calves bellow for about twenty-four hours." (p. 245.)
Some might think the maternal longing is mitigated because, after all, she is only a cow. However a cow doesn't amuse herself with writing or reading books and watching television, or concern herself with her career and wonder how long she should stay away from it in order to care for her baby but still "have it all." To a cow, raising her young is "it all." And when we deprive her of that one joy in order to satisfy the odd human craving for the milk of another species, the distress, the bellowing, is on our account. Why should our mercy not include her?
Then there is the vivisection of Peter Singer. I would expect a catholic, pro-life, conservative speechwriter to take offense at some of Singer's views but I was disappointed by their misrepresentation. Scully tells us that Singer supports infanticide but fails to mention that Singer's arguments pertain to severely, usually painfully, disabled babies whose parents do not want them kept alive and who nobody else wishes to adopt. Perhaps the twelve page attack on Singer's views unrelated to animal welfare are included in order to burnish Scully's right wing, conservative credentials as he moves into a field more commonly inhabited by the morally questionable Liberals on the Left.
The following lines appalled me:
"In the same way, animal liberationists who turn to Peter Singer for guidance must ask themselves how we can protect vulnerable animals from the caprice of man if we do not protect vulnerable people, the sick, the aged, the newborn and the unborn -- how it is possible to love cats and dogs and baby seals if we do not love the most innocent and defenseless of human beings." (p. 311)
Peter Singer gives twenty percent of his income to largely human-centered charities such as Oxfam, and encourages those who turn to him for guidance to make similar sacrifices. This is hardly a rejection of the sick, aged, newborn or defenseless; in fact, Singer's personal dedication to the issue of poverty makes the accusation bizarre. Scully may be concerned about Singer's disregard for the unborn but he has no right to make sweeping false accusations.
My disappointments aside, I am thrilled that Matthew Scully has chosen to turn his formidable and well-respected intellect and passionate attention to the matter of animal protection. Scully's eloquent argument aimed not at animal rights activists but at those most likely to be resistant to the animal rights movement, could widen the circle of those who take the issue of animal protection seriously. Thus I hope wholeheartedly for Dominion's success and influence.
95 of 100 people found the following review helpful.
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
By Linda
I had been avoiding reading Matthew Scully's Dominion for months. Avoiding it because I knew it would enrage, upset and embarrass me. And once I did pick up the book and commit to reading it, my predictions were dead on. This powerful, emotionally draining and gut-wrenching book about the systematic abuse and widespread slaughter of animals enraged me as a compassionate person, upset me as a lover of animals, and embarrassed me as a human being who has blindly taken part in the chain of abuse.
Scully, a former Special Assistant and speech writer to President George W. Bush, surprises me first and foremost in that his background as a Republican is not something I would immediately associate with animal rights. Yet he clearly feels deeply about the subject, and that comes through loud and clear in this intricately detailed, impassioned examination of the ways we humans have abused our guardianship position and made animals into virtual slaves of our own needs, desires, passions and greed.
From the horrors of factory farming, where massive numbers of cows, sheep, pigs and veal calves are treated like machines to produce our food, to the disgusting antics of the wealthy hunters who pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill exotic wildlife, to the brutal slaughter of seal pups, lab animals, precious and rare elephants, and whales (called "living marine resources" by the men who clamor for more lethal means to kill them with), this book leaves no stone unturned in its unflinching look at the myriad ways humans mistreat other life forms. Scully also spends a lot of time countering the ridiculous arguments of religious leaders, scientists and even sportsmen that animals do not feel pain, have no souls, and therefore are ours to do with as we please.
Scully takes us into whaling commission meetings, hog farms, science labs and canned hunts, and into the minds of the men who get their kicks - and even their paychecks - from brutalizing other living things. We listen to the reasoning and excuses of people who think animals are find to torture and kill because they don't think like us, talk like us, or feel like us. We hear the excuses, the arguments and even the motivations of those who engage in the suffering of animals for prosperity, knowledge, thrills and cheap hamburgers.
Eventually, the book leads us to the conclusion that we as a species have utterly failed our fellow creatures in every way. That we have been given a sense of dominion over the beasts of air and sea and earth seems to have given way to a righteous attitude of ownership, whereby we kill millions of animals each year for our own consumption, pleasure and control.
Dominion is not a book written by some animal rights wacko. It is written by a respected journalist and former literary editor of National Review, and a man who has worked under some of the most powerful Republican leaders. It is written with respect and restraint, honesty and directness, and a deep compassion for the creatures we have enslaved, even as we seek more, faster, cheaper, easier ways of living - all at their expense.
Scully's book is devastating, and will upset many readers, so be forewarned. This is not easy material to sit through, but it is important nonetheless. This call to mercy is one of the most powerful books I have ever tried to avoid reading. Denial may save us for awhile, but in the end, we need to face the truth, and then do something about it. As it says in the Book of Proverbs, "A righteous man regards the life of his animal." This book is a reminder that dominion and domination are two completely different things.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A conservative who doesn't shy away from emotions
By Zombie Jackal
It's been roughly 1 year and 3 months since I picked up Domionion at my local library. At the time, I was hardly looking to become vegetarian or vegan. In fact, after being pescetarian for 5 1/2 years for health reasons, I was looking to eat chicken again. I had been Christians for a few years, but indifferently so. Recently, I've solidified my faith much more. In fact my veganism and Christianity became distinct together, in terms of time, but separately in terms of reason.
I've been vegan for a year now. When I first picked up Dominion, a year and 3 months ago, I couldn't finish it. I skipped pages and chapters in disgust and don't really recall finishing it. I was casually browsing Amazon and in a small rush hit me when I saw Dominion, that fateful book that set me on my journey to veganism. I bought immediately and this time read it cover to cover.
Which brings me to Dominion itself. Dominion, was interesting in the respect that Matthew Scully didn't shy away from the emotional arguments that come with animal rights. For the dozens of books I've read on the issue this past year, Scully was the most honest. Indeed, he spent entire pages dedicated to the idea that he doesn't need any complex theories to recognize that animal suffering is worth recognizing. He wasn't going to waste the readers time on theories. He sat them down and said 'If we owe it animals to not cause them to suffer, as we all agree, then why should we eat them unnecessarily?' This was the hard hitting punch of the book.
Starting with canned hunting in Africa, Scully does what a reporter does: he gives an account of what he saw. In the chapters he spends giving the opposition a chance to speak for themselves, he resists, for the most part, snide comments. Only once every few pages or so does an obvious bit of sarcasm or depression speak through. The hunters don't feel a need to apologize for paying 20k to shoot fish in a barrel, or in this case, Elephants in fences. Guaranteed kills at that, or your money back. Why should they apologize for calls that imitate the sound of distressed babyh deer? Their shooting them either way.
Moving onto whaling, the whalers don't feel a need to apologize either. Mirroring the hunters words in many respects, they speak of the bond that comes through whaling, the 'tradition' and 'culture' that comes with it. Japan in particular gets special attention, their lame excuses despite absolutely no need for killing whales over their 'scientific' studies. Scullys melancholy over describing the scientific fact that whales never likely 'unconcious' and thus are entirely aware of their pain when grenades and harpoon explode in their heads for anywhere from 5-30 minutes.
Food animals was always resting in the background until Scully ventured onto factory farms. There's a different excuse this time around from the food industry. The animals actually enjoy the factory farms! Oh yes ecnomics are involved as with hunting and whaling but this time the animals love it. They love not being able to turn, being covered in sores and tumors. Any amount of words will fall short of my feelings towards re-reading this book. Over the year I've grown almost numb to the heart breaking logic people use to justify causing animals pain. Here old wounds opened. I remember how I first felt, being so disgusted, having to skip the hunters trying to justify their petty pleasures over hitting a deer with an arrow.
You have to read it.
The pros of the book are simple and steadfast: Scully offers a neutral account of what he sees, then absolutely smashes it in the next chapter. He offers clear cut logic on why we shouldn't eat animals anymore, all while recognizing any amount of logic won't stop some people. One quote in particular, on the final pages of the book hit hard. "When faces with [the suffering of animals] 'mmmm [steak] is so good' is not my idea of a mans reply."
The cons of the book, are that Scully seems to slightly dodge the issue that his holy book seems to condone eating meat. Granted, as scully noted himself, factory farms didn't exist when the bible was written. But most who sit on his conservative side of the fence will appeal to the 'timelessness' of the biblical rules, as they do sometimes with global warming.
But onto more meta matters, Scully did something I noted was interesting. He appealed to emotions. This may be obvious, but there's often the accusation of bleeding heart liberals, yet for all the animal rights book I read, the theories were often cold and calculating, using blunt logic. Matthew Scully on the other hand, takes a simple, human, instead of an academic approach and fully describes the suffering of his fellow creatures and sighing with exhausting at his fellow conservatives accusing him of Paganism and New Age Heresy. Indeed, being Christian and Vegan myself, I'm familiar with those accusations.
Which turns me to my fellow liberals. Simpy click the one star button and my brother and sister liberals have accused Matthew Scully of hypocrisy, working for Sarah Palin, who is certainly no animal friend, and George Bush, who many liberals accuse of being a child killer. However, as Scully noted in this book, how one feels about the animal issue is completely separate from human issues. I'm sure if me and Mr. Scully sat down, had a beer, we'd probably vehemently disagree over every single issue -- accept this one.
It's been 13 years since Scully set Dominion to the presses. He's gone vegan since, probably due to many people sending him videos of how dairy cows are treated [hint: not pretty]. In his book, in 2002, according to him 15 million Americans were vegetarians. The population was around 282 million. Now the population is around with 319 million Americans, around 5% identifying as vegetarian. Meaning only 16 million identify as vegetarian. Despite that depressing stat, other countries have vegetarianism on the upswing. 25 of Israel Identify as vegetarians. Vegetarianism is hot in germany. Nearly 10% of Swedens are vegetarians.
This is probably the most depressing part of being any sort of Animal Rights activist. Despite unyielding optimism, we have to recognize it's been 50 years since Animal Liberation was penned. 13 years since Scully pleaded to the world and more directly, his fellow Christians, to eat less meat and actually have animal welfare laws in place. Reading his bullet points for laws that should be passed at the end of the book reminds me of the progress that need to be made.
Whether or not the 'world will go vegan' in 50 or 100 years, as some predict, there is certainly pressure to do so, given all the data coming forth that factory farms are absolutely obliterating the environment.
However, I didn't go vegan to be 'on the right side of history'. I went vegan to eat with a clear conscious, rather than brushing it all aside. I went vegan to be consistent. I went vegan because mercy is to withhold harm, when I have all the power to inflict it.
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
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