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3/24/08

SLU Prof's Book On Animal Rights To Be Celebrated

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, by Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert J. Torres, on Friday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. Torres will speak at the event, which is open to the public, free of charge.

The book, published by AK Press in 2007, explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to "the exploitative dynamics of capitalism."

Torres is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the co-author, with Director of the Language Resource Center/Instructor of Modern Languages Jenna Torres, of the popular book Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World and is co-editor of the forthcoming book Nanotechnology, Social Change and the Environment.

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