Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror is a book written by U.S. lawyer Lee Hall, concerning both the fundamental theory underlying animal rights and the history of the methods of its proponents. The book was published in July 2006, by Friends of Animals’ Nectar Bat Press, and includes a foreword by the psychologist and author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
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| - Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror is a book written by U.S. lawyer Lee Hall, concerning both the fundamental theory underlying animal rights and the history of the methods of its proponents. The book was published in July 2006, by Friends of Animals’ Nectar Bat Press, and includes a foreword by the psychologist and author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
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| - Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror is a book written by U.S. lawyer Lee Hall, concerning both the fundamental theory underlying animal rights and the history of the methods of its proponents. The book was published in July 2006, by Friends of Animals’ Nectar Bat Press, and includes a foreword by the psychologist and author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. The book's title refers to a six-year campaign to end the breeding of guinea pigs at a family-run farm in Newchurch, England. The cover is designed with a photo of the churchyard where the body of the guinea pig farmer's mother-in-law was exhumed by activists. Before going into the specifics of these incidents in the heart of England, the book provides the background that enables the reader to connect them with other campaigns carried out internationally. Hall’s analysis pinpoints two major ways activists can be managed and their energy turned against their movement. One is by negotiating (usually with corporations) adjustments in the way animals are handled within the social institutions that use them. The other is by systematically employing intimidation in their campaigns, thereby enabling corporations and lawmakers to paint animal and environmental activists as anti-social and capable of violence. Perhaps the first book to offer an analysis of industry compromise and coercive activism as part of an interrelated dynamic, it also looks at the law impacting activism in light of trends that directly followed the infamous September 2001 attacks. The book also points out that the primary model of animal advocacy addresses claims of cruelty in institutions while tending to ignore free-living animals and the importance of the biocommunity to a viable concept of “rights” for nonhuman life. Rather than modifying pain -- a natural survival mechanism in all conscious life -- Hall urges advocates to focus on why humans dominate other animals, and whether humanity is capable of transcending this history. Rather than limit the idea of animal rights to nonhuman beings’ interest in not being property, Hall’s focus (invoking the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) is on the “right to be let alone” -- for the dignity of one's private life, habits, acts, and relations is essential, as Brandeis explained, in a way property rights are not, to the 'inviolate personality.' Whereas Brandeis called the right to be let alone the most comprehensive of rights, Hall examines the ramifications of applying this concept of rights to nonhuman beings, deciding that animal rights is the quintessential ground for the concept, given that nonhuman beings are not asking to be enfranchised into human society at all. The book uses numerous contemporary illustrations and includes many references to prominent figures and theories as well as a wide variety of organizations in the animal-advocacy movement. The book also includes a "Handy Pull-Out Guide to Animal Rights" -- one page dedicated to a succinct communication of the principles of animal rights crystallized from the analyses laid out in the book as a whole.
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