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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About Animals (2010)

by Hal Herzog(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061730866 (ISBN13: 9780061730863)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Harper

review 1: This book is a collection of essay-like segments about the inconsistency of human interaction with other species. The sections are sometimes interesting, but the author wanders quite a bit and never provides an answer to the why in the subtitle beyond declaring it's complicated. Be forewarned the book is neither scientific, nor philosophical but is rather a collection of the author's musings about the science, philosophy and culture of human-animal relations. Knowing that, I think many readers will find the book okay or likable.
review 2: A very easy to read, comprehensive study of our varying attitudes towards other species. Prepare to witness vegetarians who eat fish, cockfighters that claim they love their prized roosters, animal hoarders that are convinced ... morethey help their rescued pets, or lab workers torn between boiling a worm and a mouse alive. Human interaction with animals is complex, arbitrary, and morally confusing. Hal Herzog does a great job at exposing these inconsistencies without pushing his own judgment on his subjects. less

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