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A review by keegan_rellim_taylor
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
4.0
So my parents have a hobby farm turned business farm with a wide variety of animals (GEE Funny Farm) and my mom is always looking for good books to recommend for animal education. Often she passes on her recommendations to my dad, and in this case he passed on the recommendation to me.
What an interesting read! Most of this book is informative. It's written for popular culture, but it's well-researched. He shares what are good studies and what are bad studies, and he manages to do it in such an engaging (and sometimes funny way). He introduces a wide range of people and he introduces them with respect I think, although he doesn't always agree with them. Among the topics he discusses: the ethics of pet owning (not something I had really considered), the inconsistencies of human nature regarding animals, a little bit about the laws (or lack of laws) governing the use of animals in testing, about the history of dog breeding and trends in dog owning, about what attracts us to some animals and what repulses us from some animals, etc.
Hal Herzog himself is not an all-out animal activist (though he studies them), which makes him more accessible to me. He admits that he justifies the eating of meat, though he does work hard to do it with consideration for the animals. He concludes by persuasively arguing that while human nature leads us to be inconsistent, we could perhaps work harder to align our beliefs with our actions, even if we are never perfect at it.
What an interesting read! Most of this book is informative. It's written for popular culture, but it's well-researched. He shares what are good studies and what are bad studies, and he manages to do it in such an engaging (and sometimes funny way). He introduces a wide range of people and he introduces them with respect I think, although he doesn't always agree with them. Among the topics he discusses: the ethics of pet owning (not something I had really considered), the inconsistencies of human nature regarding animals, a little bit about the laws (or lack of laws) governing the use of animals in testing, about the history of dog breeding and trends in dog owning, about what attracts us to some animals and what repulses us from some animals, etc.
Hal Herzog himself is not an all-out animal activist (though he studies them), which makes him more accessible to me. He admits that he justifies the eating of meat, though he does work hard to do it with consideration for the animals. He concludes by persuasively arguing that while human nature leads us to be inconsistent, we could perhaps work harder to align our beliefs with our actions, even if we are never perfect at it.