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Easy to understand, informative take on an important and complicated issue.
The more we know about the emotions and thoughts of animals, the more we realize how badly we treat them in the industry, in the zoos, in the laboratories and sometimes even in our homes. In this very well informed book, Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce defend an moral approach to the animal’s concerns and interests based on the notion of freedom. According to the authors, we should provide more freedom to the animals we interact with, freedom from hunger, freedom from discomfort, from pain, from
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Anyone with a shred of compassion should be disturbed by the way animals are treated within the food, entertainment, and science industries. This book takes a look at all these areas, showing us the truth of what it means to these animals - and to us human animals - as we continue the cycle of abuse. Most of the material here isn't new, though it is presented in a new and unique way. We see that even those who claim to be studying and advocating animal welfare often come at the issue from a self...
A truly compassionate look at animal well-being vs animal welfare, and starting from a place of true freedom for all animals. "The essence of the ethology of freedom is that behavior is a window onto what animals really want and need--to be free to live their own lives, to be free from the suffering and exploitation to which we subject them--but only if we are looking the right way: straight into the eyes of the animals themselves."
ReedIII Quick Review: A well thought out, well presented, well written, well researched, informative call to action. What is animal well-being and why should be care. Included some success stories but was a little light on how to make a difference.
I won this at LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program in exchange for an honest review. It took almost 2 months to arrive and came only 4 days prior to official publication, though it is a publication ready hardcover copy, for which I’m very appreciative. 4 ½ stars. I wanted to round up to 5 stars because of its importance but I’m rounding down, the reason being that for me it wasn’t a page-turner and there was no new information (except for some specific details) and though if I hadn’t already h...
As with all of Marc Bekoff's books that I have read, I really enjoyed this book! I really appreciate that he and Jessica Pierce both present the theme of the book as exploring the whole ethic itself of animal welfare science, and each of the chapters in the book, whether it's exploring captivity in zoos or lab animal research or animals in the wild, comes back to deliberating on this ongoing theme. Not a lot of books do this in this way, where the reader is also learning, at the same time, about...
"The Animals' Agenda" should be a must-read in our schools. Everyone should be aware of our impact we have on the animals with which we share this world. Excellent book.
I received this book from a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.I gave three stars because, to me, it was ok (and depressing), but it discussed an important topic. It took me awhile to get through it, and it certainly had me thinking. The book discussed animal welfare, and stated that welfare is not enough, that we humans must focus on animal well-being, both individual and groups. The authors talk about the problems and ethical issues surrounding animals raised for food, lab animals, 'entertainment'...
The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age summarizes current research into exactly what animals think and feel. The research shows that they have much more complex thoughts and feelings than most people realize. The authors organize these results into several chapters: laboratory animals, food animals, zoos, and pets. Within each chapter, about a paragraph or so is used to summarize each research article that the authors chose, and extensive notes and a bibliogra...
Such important subject matter told passionately and convincingly, this an excellent but not always easy read, arguing for drastically improved treatment of animals, allowance of freedom of animals, and an end to invasive human interference of animals. The authors comprehensively dive into the lengthy and damaging footprint the human race has callously left on all other animals in the world. It’s not possible to read this book and not be affected by it enough to take pause and initiate change.
The first part of this book was interesting, but got less so as the book went on. An academic writing style that I didn't expect kept making me fall asleep while reading on a semi regular basis and not looking forward to picking it back up. I also found some of the author's points hard to relate to when their author bios say they live in Boulder which along with Denver are to me the places that come to mind when I think of excessive encroachment on wildlife and habitat destruction in the US. Thi...
I am a real animal lover so this book was a wake up call. It had been a while since I had read a Marc Bekoff book. He is very good getting his point across in a way that does not make you feel guilty about having that steak. He believes in humane treatment of the animal. He is against the cages that hens are kept where they can't move around and pigs that on grated floors and can't turn around, unable the scratch themselves and are fed to the point they can not hold themselves up. Very good book...
I am a PhD student in the area of critical animal studies, and I found this book to be surprisingly insightful and helpful, even in comparison to Bekoff's previous work.
