How Long Shall These Things Be? is a powerful and deeply human account of the animal rights movement told through the voices of those who have dedicated their lives to ending animal exploitation.
Spanning the 1980s through to today, the book charts the evolution of activism, from the rise of direct action alongside emerging mainstream charities to today’s grassroots campaigning, investigations and legal challenges. Readers are taken inside factory farms, protest camps and street demonstrations and into the countryside shaped by hunting and the badger cull. These stories reveal both extraordinary courage and the heavy personal costs faced by campaigners, including imprisonment, trauma and, in some tragic cases, loss of life.
Author Martin Whybrow speaks with pioneers of the movement, established NGOs and frontline activists shaping the future of animal advocacy. The book features Juliet Gellatley, founder and CEO of Viva!, whose decades of investigative work and campaigning have helped expose cruelty and drive lasting change for animals in the UK and beyond.
Despite confronting deeply ingrained cruelty, the book also celebrates hard-won victories and offers genuine hope that meaningful societal change is underway.
The title is drawn from a 1906 statue in Battersea Park, erected in memory of a dog killed in laboratory experiments, bearing the inscription: “Men and Women of England, How Long Shall These Things Be?” More than a century later, this book asks that question again and invites the reader to stand alongside those still fighting for animals today.
Author
Martin Whybrow
Binding
Paperback
Number of Pages
452pp
