Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [Second Edition] : Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [Second Edition]
Author(s): Hal Herzog

A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience. Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works

A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave toward animals in this engaging, informative, and though-provoking book, now newly revised.

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a highly entertaining and illuminating journey through the full spectrum of human-animal relations. Drawing on his groundbreaking research in the field of anthrozoology, Dr. Hal Herzog tries to make sense of our complex relationships with animals and the challenging moral conundrums we face regarding these creatures who share our worldand some, our homes.

A blend of anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy, updated to reflect evolving attitudes and the most recent findings, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a poignant, often challenging, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny trip through a world of animal rights activists, cockfighters, professional dog-show handlers, veterinary students, biomedical researchers, and more. It will forever change the way we think about other living creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.

Review(s):
A wonderful bookwildly readable, funny, scientifically sound, and with surprising moments of deep, challenging thoughts. I loved it.
Everybody who is interested in the ethics of our relationship between humans and animals should read this book.
Hal Herzog does for our relationships with animals what Michael Pollans Omnivores Dilemma did for our relationships with food. . . . The book is a joy to read, and no matter what your beliefs are now, it will change how you think.
Reminiscent of Freakonomics. . . . An agreeable guide to popular avenues of inquiry in the field of anthrozoology.
Wonderful. . . . An engagingly written book that only seems to be about animals. Herzogs deepest questions are about men, women and children.
A fun read. . . . What buoys this book is Herzogs voice. Hes an assured, knowledgeable and friendly guide.
A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.
An instant classic. . . . Written so accessibly and personally, while simultaneously satisfying the scholar in all of us.
An intelligent and amusing book that invites us to think deeply about how we define-and where we limit-our empathy for animals.
Herzog argues that moral absolutes are not readily available in a complex worldone that exists in shades of grey, rather than the black and white of animal rights activists and their opponents. . . . Herzog has a clear eye for the essence of a scientific study, but he leavens his narrative with illuminating personal stories and self-deprecating humor.



ISBN:9780063119284