4.0

This book is not easy to read. Unless you are somehow the perfect vegan and animal rights activist (which doesn't exist - and I am positive Mance himself doesn't consider himself this), then it's going to make you uncomfortable. By picking up this book one can presume that you care about your individual piece in the large puzzle that is human-to-other animal relationships, no matter how deep or shallow that caring may be. If that's the case, it's bound to make you feel some kind of cognitive dissonance. Once you push through that though, this is very informative. It took me quite a while to read since it challenged me to sit in my discomfort, but I feel better having read it and feel that it did make an impact. 

On a technical note, I could have done with more division in the way the information is formatted. I find long chapters hard to swallow in any case (and these chapters are definitely long). Especially since the information isn't always the easiest to ruminate with, I think it's one that's best to take your time with and the long chapters don't make it convenient to put the book down and pick back up.