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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat (2010) (edit title/settings)

Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

by Hal Herzog (Author) (edit contributors)

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“A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.” (Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought )

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Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals.

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Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals.

Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoyed a better quality of life—the chicken on a dinner plate or the rooster who died in a Saturday-night cockfight? Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? Drawing on more than two decades of research in the emerging field of anthrozoology, the science of human–animal relations, Hal Herzog offers surprising answers to these and other questions related to the moral conundrums we face day in and day out regarding the creatures with whom we share our world.

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a highly entertaining and illuminating journey through the full spectrum of human–animal relations, based on Dr. Herzog’s groundbreaking research on animal rights activists, cockfighters, professional dog-show handlers, veterinary students, and biomedical researchers. Blending anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy, Herzog carefully crafts a seamless narrative enriched with real-life anecdotes, scientific research, and his own sense of moral ambivalence.

Alternately poignant, challenging, and laugh-out-loud funny, this enlightening and provocative book will forever change the way we look at our relationships with other creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.

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  • “" Hermann Goring said, 'To the Germans, animals are not merely creatures in the organic sense, but creatures who lead their own lives and who are endowed with perceptive facilities, who feel pain and experience joy and prove to be faithful and attached.' Goring once threatened, 'I will commit to concentration camps those who think that they can continue to treat animals as property.'"”

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Intro-The way we think about other species often defies logic. Chapter 1: Anthrozoology-The thirty-minute drive from the Kansas City airport to the conference hotel was much more interesting than the three-hour flight from North Carolina.

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Introduction: Why is it so hard to think straight about animals?
1. Anthrozoology: The new science of human-animal interactions
2. The importance of being cute: why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us
3. Pet-O-Philia: why do humans (and only humans) love pets?
4. Friends, foes and fasion statements: The human-Dog relationship
5. Prom Queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday: Gender and the human-animal relationship
6. In the eyes of the beholder: the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals
7. Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead: the human-meat relationship
8. The moral status of mice: the use of animals in science
9. The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates: are we all hypocrites?
10. The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves: dealing with moral inconsistency
Acknowledgments
Recommended reading
Notes

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  1. Hal Herzog (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-173086-3
Page Count: 326

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