| Authors: |
Brown, Jenny, 1971-
Primack, Gretchen
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Animal sanctuaries -- New York (State) -- Woodstock.
Domestic animals -- New York (State) -- Woodstock.
Animal rights activists -- United States -- Biography.
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Cancer in children -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Bones -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
Brown, Jenny,1971-
Brown, Jenny,1971- -- Childhood and youth.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Avery, c2012. |
| Description: |
xiv, 289 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781583334416 1583334416 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: |
Prologue -- The cat and the cripple -- The flying leg -- Taking the red pill -- The horrible bunny -- Take two -- Dougable -- Texas, undercover -- My three hundred chicken roommates -- Woodstock, a wedding, and a band of turkeys -- Soapbox feet -- Happy endings -- Appendix: an opinionated lady's opinions -- Resources -- Recipes. |
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| Summary: |
Traces how the author lost a leg to bone cancer in childhood before connecting with farm animals and questioning her Southern Baptist upbringing to expose what she has learned about slaughterhouse abuses. |