How to Love Animals

Author: Henry Mance
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879650
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
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 evolving relationship with animals, and how we can share our planet fairly. Mance works in a slaughterhouse 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 their 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.

We Love Animals

Author: Lo Cole
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9781338262124
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Introduces different kinds of animals and invites young readers to turn the pages of a small inserted book to match an animal with its habitat.

I Love Animals

Author: Flora McDonnell
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763615468
Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A girl names all the animals she likes on her farm, from Jock the dog to the pig and her piglets.

So, You Love Animals

Author: Zoe Weil
Publisher: New Society Pub
ISBN: 9781881699019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
A book that transforms children's natural love and compassion for animals into positive action.

Why We Love and Exploit Animals

Author: Kristof Dhont
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351181424
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.

Loving Animals

Author: Kathy Rudy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452933065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
In a book aimed at advocates, the author argues that in order to end animal cruelty, activists need to better understand the profound emotional attachment many people have with animals.

Saints of Feather and Fang

Author: Caryn Rivadeneira
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506472087
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
In Saints of Feather and Fang, writer and lifelong animal lover Caryn Rivadeneira explores the ways that animals--from the pets in our homes to the mysterious creatures of the deep--serve as spiritual guides for our hearts, minds, and souls. Rivadeneira offers whimsical and theological reflections on delight, instinct, adaptation, fear, and awe.

Do Animals Fall in Love?

Author: Katharina von der Gathen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776572915
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Beavers stay loyal for life. Scorpions attract their partners with a romantic dance. Male humpback whales sing together for days at a time to bring females from many miles away. This illustrated compendium is based on questions asked by children in sexuality education classes. It is frank, humorous, and with something to amaze on every page, including seduction methods, physiology and mating, the most devoted fathers in the animal kingdom, and the sweetest animal babies on Earth.

For the Love of Animals

Author: Kathryn Shevelow
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429964081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine—the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved steadily. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her writings. A gentleman scientist believed that animals should be treated with compassion. And with the concentrated efforts of an eccentric Scots barrister and a flamboyant Irishman, the lives of beasts—and, correspondingly, men and women—began to change. Kathryn Shevelow, a respected eighteenth-century scholar, gives us the dramatic story of the bold reformers who braved attacks because they sympathized with the plight of creatures everywhere. More than just a history, this is an eye-opening exploration into how our feelings toward animals reveal our ideas about ourselves, God, mercy, and nature. Accessible and lively, For the Love of Animals is a captivating cultural narrative that takes us into the lives of animals—and into the minds of humans—during some of history's most fascinating times.

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

Author: Hal Herzog
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061730858
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of life—–the chicken destined for your dinner plate or the rooster in a Saturday night cockfight? Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? Drawing on more than two decades of research into the emerging field of anthrozoology, the science of human–animal relations, Hal Herzog offers an illuminating exploration of the fierce moral conundrums we face every day regarding the creatures with whom we share our world. Alternately poignant, challenging, and laugh-out-loud funny—blending anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy—this enlightening and provocative book will forever change the way we look at our relationships with other creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.