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In a frontal assault on the modern food complex of milk, meat and eggs, the author shows how it is raised on the foundations of unacceptable violence against animals.

As one century ends and a new one begins, Maneka Gandhi, India's most important and effective animal rights crusader, proposes a radical new deal for animals. Over the past decades, she argues, this land of ahimsa has turned into a veritable torture ground for animals of various species and there is no prospect of an early end to the pain they are made to suffer in the name of providing food and fun for members of the human species.

In their defense, Ms. Gandhi now launches a frontal assault on the modern food complex. She shows, for example, how slaughter houses operate and how battery chickens are raised. She then proceeds to effectively demolish common arguments against vegetarianism. She introduces us to the brutal and uncivilized manner in which we treat frogs in fields, dogs in cities and wild life in circuses.

But Heads and Tails goes far beyond documenting the miseries of the animal kingdom dominated by unfeeling human beings. She also celebrates the wonders of the animal world, and recounts warm and fascinating stories about birds and pigs and vegetarian tigers.

A brand new century, Ms. Gandhi, pleads gives us a unique opportunity to make a fresh beginning, to right the wrongs of the past, to forge an ethical and non-exploitative relationship with other living species.

After you have read this book, you're bound to agree.