How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World
by Henry Mance
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"A personal journey into our evolving relationships with animals, and a thought-provoking look at how those bonds are being challenged and reformed across disciplines We love animals, but does that make the animals' lives any happier? With factory farms, climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. If we took animals' experiences seriously, how could we eat, think and live differently? How to Love Animals is a lively and important portrait of our show more evolving relationship with animals, and how we can share our planet fairly. Mance works in an abattoir and on a pig farm to explore the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas over hunting wild animals, over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and saving wild spaces. What might happen if we extended the love we show to our pets to other sentient beings? In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with animals has become unsustainable. Mance argues that there has never been a better time to become vegetarian or vegan, and that the conservation movement can flourish, if people in wealthy countries shrink our footprint. Mance seeks answers from chefs, farmers, activists, philosophers, politicians and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals. Inspired by the author's young daughters, his book is a story of discovery and hope that outlines how we can find a balance with animals that fits with our basic love for them"-- show lessTags
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This book gets 4 stars (or perhaps should have even got 5 stars) for the content and the context. It is a book that all of us need to read to understand to our impact on the ecology or even open our eyes to the myths behind many of our actions based on misbeliefs.
But it is not an easy book to read, at least, not without feeling remorse about how humans have and still treat the natural world. With every chapter, one's heart would sink with disappointment. And for that reason - how bad it made me feel, I did not like it as much, or rather I did not like myself (and my species) as much, I felt like giving it "2 stars (it was okay)", but that wouldn't have been fair to the author or the book that, as I mentioned earlier, is a must read for show more everyone. show less
But it is not an easy book to read, at least, not without feeling remorse about how humans have and still treat the natural world. With every chapter, one's heart would sink with disappointment. And for that reason - how bad it made me feel, I did not like it as much, or rather I did not like myself (and my species) as much, I felt like giving it "2 stars (it was okay)", but that wouldn't have been fair to the author or the book that, as I mentioned earlier, is a must read for show more everyone. show less
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