55 Haywood Street • Asheville, North Carolina 28801 1-800-441-9829 or 828-254-6734
Hal Herzog
09/16/2010 7:00 pm
How do we reconcile our love for animals with our nearly insatiable desire to eat them? Do children who abuse animals usually become violent adults? Why do some breeds of dogs become popular almost overnight? It is ethical to use dolphins as therapists for autistic children? Why do most vegetarians eventually return to eating meat? What are the real health benefits of living with pets?
With Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals Hal Herzog offers surprising answers to these and other questions in a lively and deeply intelligent look inside our paradoxical relationships with other species. From the psychology behind animal hoarding to the moral quandaries of animal research, one of the founders of the new science of human-animal relationships examines the difficult decisions we all face when it comes to the furry and feathered creatures with whom we share this planet.
Alternately poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat takes readers on a highly entertaining and illuminating journey through the full spectrum of human-animal interactions, relating Dr. Herzog’s groundbreaking research on groups such as animal rights activists, biomedical researchers, cockfighters, and veterinary students. Using cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology and moral philosophy, Herzog carefully crafts a seamless narrative composed of real life anecdotes, the latest scientific research, and his own sense of moral ambivalence.
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat offers a refreshing new perspective on our lives with animals—one that will forever change the way we look at our relationships with other creatures and, in so doing, will also change the way we look at ourselves.
A prize winning teacher and researcher, Dr. Hal Herzog is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on human-animal relations. He is Professor of Psychology at Western Carolina University and lives in North Carolina with his wife Mary Jean and their cat, Tilly.
“Everybody who is interested in the ethics of the relationship between humans and animals should read this book.”
— Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human
“In Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, Hal Herzog deftly blends anecdote with scientific research to show how almost any moral or ethical position regarding our relationship with animals can lead to absurd consequences. In an utterly appealing narrative, he reveals the quirky (and for the reader, entertaining) ways we humans try to make sense of these absurdities. This book will appeal to all who have ever wondered about their interactions with their nonhuman brethren.”
— Irene M. Pepperberg, author of Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Location:
- Street:
- Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
- Additional:
- 55 Haywood St
- City:
- Asheville ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 28801
- Country:
- United States
