How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World

How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
Henry Mance
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h198 x 129mm - 320pg
28 Apr 2022 UK
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9781529112146
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A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist. *A GUARDIAN ' BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*We all love animals, but does that make their lives happier? With factory farms, climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with the other species on our planet has become unsustainable. What would happen if we extended the love we show to our pets to other sentient beings? What if we took animals' experiences seriously - how would we eat, think and live differently? Henry Mance sets out on a personal quest to see if there is a fairer way to live alongside other species. He goes to work in an abattoir and on a farm to investigate the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas around hunting wild animals, over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos, saving wild spaces and owning pets. He meets the chefs, farmers, activists, philosophers, scientists and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals. Even on a planet shaped by human activity, he discovers, we can find space to allow other sentient beings to thrive. This is not a book about what animals can do for us, but what we can do for animals. Thoughtful, provocative and witty, it is ultimately a story of discovery and hope - and of a future that might just become a reality.
Henry Mance believes that the bad things we do to animals are the result of our failure to think through the consequences of our actions. How to Love Animals will remedy that failure, in a highly readable, informative and entertaining manner. -- Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation Unsentimental, hugely enjoyable [and] full of fascinating details. I read it with rising anger, and several chuckles. Stylishly written and deeply researched, Mance serves up the inconvenient truth that the meat on our plates was very recently a living sentient creature not unlike ourselves. He makes a powerful case in this important book, which calls for radical change to the way we eat, farm and manage wildlife in this human age. -- Gaia Vince, author of Transcendence and Adventures in the Anthropocene Wise, funny, moving and incisive. I loved it. -- Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add Up A whip-smart, thought-provoking and thrilling investigation into one of the most essential moral issues of our time. Eye-opening as well as moving, challenging as well as frequently amusing, How to Love Animals surprised and fascinated me. Mance is unwavering in his attention and journalistic rigour, never avoiding the difficult questions about how we treat animals, and his prose is also highly enjoyable and entertaining. -- Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild Smart, provocative and funny, this book also throws down a huge challenge to all of us. You' ll never look at your dog - or a glass of milk - in the same way again. -- Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women
Henry Mance is the award-winning Chief Features Writer at the Financial Times. He has contributed to a number of other publications including Tatler, GQ and Radio Times. He lives in London with his wife and two young daughters, plus their cat and various frogs.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529112146
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 320

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