For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.

Foreword / by Dean Koontz -- Introduction -- Part I: "For the animals" -- Animal advocacy isn't what it used to be -- "All animals are equal" -- Animals are people too -- Let it begin with apes -- Here comes the judge -- The Silver Spring monkey case -- The death of a thousand cuts -- Proselytizing children -- Part II: By any means necessary -- Advocating terror -- Tertiary targeting -- Praising with faith condemnation -- Murder they wrote? -- Part III: For the people -- Animal rights vs. medical research -- Our system of animal research -- Ensuring the proper care of lab animals -- Meat is not murder -- Fur, hunting, and zoos -- The importance of being human.