Some we love, some we hate, some we eat : why it's so hard to think straight about animals / Hal Herzog.
- Herzog, Hal.
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
- Books
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Publication/Creation
New York : Harper, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition
1st ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : why is it so hard to think straight about animals? -- Anthrozoology : the new science of human-animal interactions -- The importance of being cute : why we think what we think about creatures that don't think like us -- Pet-o-philia : why do humans (and only humans) love pets? -- Friends, foes, and fashion statements : the human-dog relationship -- "Prom queen kills first deer on sixteenth birthday" : gender and the human-animal relationship -- In the eyes of the beholder : the comparative cruelty of cockfights and Happy Meals -- Delicious, dangerous, disgusting, and dead : the human-meat relationship -- The moral status of mice : the use of animals in science -- The cats in our houses, the cows on our plates : are we all hypocrites? -- The carnivorous yahoo within ourselves : dealing with moral inconsistency.
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Location Status Access Closed storesM21541
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ISBN
- 9780061730863
- 0061730866