Omniocracy: A Government that Represents All Living Beings

“Omniocracy is the blueprint for a truly just world.” —Peter Young, author/animal activist“If you like books that are extremely thought-provoking, highly controversial, and make you question everything you thought you knew, then this book is for you.” —Jane Velez-Mitchell, journalist/author"'All oppression is woven together like a patchwork quilt,' Charlotte Laws writes inOmniocracy, making an argument that will fall on deaf ears, even though she’s entirely right; the system Laws envisions would benefit humans every bit as much as it would all of humanity’s countless victims. She movingly asks her readers to take down the artificial barriers they’ve erected to this kind of thinking and allow all other living things to “join the human on the elite side of the divide”; one can only pray she changes some minds.Omniocracyis a heartfelt and richly detailed thought experiment positing a better, fairer world."Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Charlotte Laws’Omniocracyis not just another book about animal rights. It’s a bold, unflinching challenge to the very foundation of Western political thought. Laws, known for her fearless activism and her willingness to take on entrenched power, makes the case that democracy, the system we celebrate for its inclusivity, is, in reality, a dictatorship of one species. Humans rule. Animals, no matter how sentient or intelligent, have no political voice and no legal standing.Omniocracyis essential reading for anyone who believes the fight for animals must go deeper than incremental reforms. It’s a wake-up call to confront our species’ most comfortable lies, and to imagine a political future that, for the first time, gives voice to the entire community of life.” -Ed Boks, Animal Politics“A life-changing scholarly book and much needed in a world that is dominated by and for the human. As the author convincingly states: Nonhuman animals will remain in chains until they are recognized within the political system.” —Gene Baur, president of Farm SanctuaryOmniocracy (AHM-nee-ocracy) argues for