“This book takes us on an incredible and engaging journey of animal activism… Ordinary people taking extraordinary action, this book gives hope and inspires” – Jane Tredgett, Humane Being/Scrap Factory Farming”

‘How Long Shall These Things Be?’ captures the voices of many of the inspirational people fighting to improve the lives of animals across all areas of exploitation. Whether liberating animals, investigating factory farms, standing in front of hunters, spreading the word through outreach, using the law to block factory farms, or buying and rewilding dairy land, there are plenty of heroes out there. And they need us all to stand with them.

The author, Martin Whybrow, speaks to pioneers, the NGOs, today’s grassroots campaigners, and those devising new tactics. He reports from the factory farms to the protest camps, from the countryside ravaged by hunting and the badger cull to street protests.

It is a story of giants. “The greatest pleasure in writing this book, was meeting so many lovely, incredibly dedicated people,” says Martin. “I am in awe of what they have given and what they have achieved.” For all the ingrained cruelty that remains, there have been incredible victories and there is real cause for hope that societal change is on the way.

The title stems from an inscription on a statue put up in Battersea Park, London, in 1906 of a small dog, ‘done to death’ in a university laboratory after enduring two months of vivisections. It asked: ‘Men and Women of England How Long Shall These Things Be?’

All profits from the book go to the causes covered within its pages.  Contact us: hello@voicesfortheanimals.org  Follow Martin on Substack: https://martinwhybrow.substack.com/