DOMINION: THE POWER OF MAN, THE SUFFERING OF ANIMALS, AND THE CALL TO MERCY

Book ID/图书代码： 14650005B06543

English Summary/英文概要： "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26 In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong. In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an organization whose wealthier members will pay up to $20,000 to hunt an elephant, a lion or another animal, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens. We attend the annual International Whaling Commission conference, where the skewed politics of the whaling industry come to light, and the focus is on developing more lethal, but not more merciful, methods of harvesting "living marine resources." And we visit a gargantuan American "factory farm," where animals are treated as mere product and raised in conditions of mass confinement, bred for passivity and bulk, inseminated and fed with machines, kept in tightly confined stalls for the entirety of their lives, and slaughtered in a way that maximizes profits and minimizes decency. Throughout Dominion, Scully counters the hypocritical arguments that attempt to excuse animal abuse: from those who argue that the Bible’s message permits mankind to use animals as it pleases, to the hunter’s argument that through hunting animal populations are controlled, to the popular and "scientifically proven" notions that animals cannot feel pain, experience no emotions, and are not conscious of their own lives. The result is eye opening, painful and infuriating, insightful and rewarding. Dominion is a plea for human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the government down to the individual. Matthew Scully has created a groundbreaking work, a book of lasting power and importance for all of us.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 上帝赐予人类控制动物的权利，但是随着特权而来的是尊重生命的庄严责任、仁慈地对待动物的态度。在人类文明进化的过程中，某些部分已经出现差错。在Dominion一书中，我们目睹了国际旅游俱乐部的年度大会，该组织中的富裕的成员会花高达20000美圆的费用在美国或国外去捕猎一头大象、一只狮子或其他动物并将这些猎物关在笼中。在整本书中作者强烈反对那些支持滥杀动物的虚伪言论，包括声称圣经的教条允许人类随心所欲地捕杀动物，还有猎人认为通过捕猎动物的数量能够得到控制，还有甚者口出狂言称动物感受不到痛苦，没有情感体验，这些绝对都是谬论。Dominion一书为了唤醒人类的慈悲心，不遗余力地抨击了那些冷酷无情肆意捕杀生灵的人，并呼吁政府以及个人对此采取一定的措施。作者为我们带来的这部作品具有非凡的意义，定会经久不衰，对我们每个人的心灵都会产生不小的震撼。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Matthew Scully自2001年一月至2002年的六月间担任美国总统布什的特别助理兼高级撰稿人，曾效力于2000年的总统竞选活动，也曾为副总统Dan Quayle和Dick Cheney 撰稿。他是前国家评论文学主编，还出版过许多期刊包括纽约时报、华盛顿邮报。他和妻子Emmanuelle住在北维吉尼亚洲。想要了解该作者更多的情况请登陆www.matthewscully.com
Matthew Scully served from January 2001 until June 2002 as special assistant and senior speechwriter to President George W. Bush. He worked in the president’s 2000 campaign and has also written for vice presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, and for the late Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey. A former Literary Editor for the National Review, he has been published in various periodicals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives with his wife, Emmanuelle, in northern Virginia. Visit him at www.matthewscully.com.

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