Domain

Report on the relationships between humans and animals in a global society driven by the interests of financial capital.

Dominion is a revealing, painful, and infuriating read, but also insightful and rewarding. It's a call for compassion and mercy, a scathing attack on those who believe animal rights activism is merely sentimentalism. It's also a call for government reforms to promote the ethical treatment of animals.

Among other disturbing information, the book presents the institution that promotes hunting tourism, whose members are capable of paying considerable sums to hunt elephants, lions, or some other animal imprisoned in so-called "safari ranches," located in the United States or in African countries.

The book also reports on the content of one of the International Whaling Commission's annual conferences, which focuses on developing more lethal methods of harvesting "living marine resources." Furthermore, it exposes the reality of factory farms, where animals are treated as mere products: raised in mass confinement, inseminated and fed by machines, kept confined throughout their lives, and finally slaughtered—with no regard for anything other than maximizing profits.

“Scully’s argument is fundamentally moral. When our cruelty expands and shifts to the point where we fail to recognize that farm animals are living creatures capable of feeling pain and fear—or when we insist on an inalienable right to persecute and kill intelligent creatures, like elephants or polar bears, for the sheer, unvarnished thrill of it […]—we have degraded ourselves.” Natalie Angier, The New York Times Book Review