A review by bookgardendc
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin

4.0

Leaving aside the inelegant writing style, I think this is really two books: one about animals that live in our homes with us (primarily dogs and cats), which could be stand-alone with a lot more behavioral information that gets into the nuance of living with another species; and one about making the lives of farm animals better. Of course, the book assumes the status quo in terms of current practices of raising animals explicitly for slaughter/eggs/milk...I see value in proposing ways of making their lives much better as they live only for these purposes, since it's not likely that we will all suddenly and forever turn vegetarian, but some consideration of the ethics of this would have ben interesting. Regardless I'm really tempted to go back to veg, and maybe even vegan, after reading about the lives of these animals, even in the best of circumstances...But overall there is a lot of interest here, especially for animal lovers. And the connections between animal welfare and welfare of people with autism are also very insightful.