Why We'll Take a Child to Pick Berries, but Not to a Slaughterhouse

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 11-a de aprilo 2019 de Independently Published.

ISBN:: 979-8-6425-7331-0

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In this wide-ranging and accessible book, Yunt offers a brief survey of some of the most vital historical, scientific, philosophical, and even religious aspects of animal liberation. Making connections between sexism, racism, homophobia, and speciesism, he shows why nonhuman animals are the last group of sentient beings to gain rights, as well as how the movement to extend basic rights to them—something increasing with each generation—is emerging as the historical and moral end goal humanity has been moving toward throughout its evolution. What’s partly aided this evolution are scientific discoveries unveiling the biological and moral relatedness of humans and nonhuman animals. If such facts begin to inform our ethics, then our awareness of these primal bonds—such as suffering, empathy, sorrow, and joy—will enable humanity to move away from its role as oppressor, and into one of cohabitant and caretaker of the planet and other beings. The devastating issues related to …

In this wide-ranging and accessible book, Yunt offers a brief survey of some of the most vital historical, scientific, philosophical, and even religious aspects of animal liberation. Making connections between sexism, racism, homophobia, and speciesism, he shows why nonhuman animals are the last group of sentient beings to gain rights, as well as how the movement to extend basic rights to them—something increasing with each generation—is emerging as the historical and moral end goal humanity has been moving toward throughout its evolution. What’s partly aided this evolution are scientific discoveries unveiling the biological and moral relatedness of humans and nonhuman animals. If such facts begin to inform our ethics, then our awareness of these primal bonds—such as suffering, empathy, sorrow, and joy—will enable humanity to move away from its role as oppressor, and into one of cohabitant and caretaker of the planet and other beings. The devastating issues related to our current exploitation of other species—human health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, and the unnecessary brutality against other sentient life—will finally be confronted in earnest, and it will become apparent that the embrace of animal liberation is, in fact, the beginning of true human liberation.

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Stephanie Jane recenzis Why We'll Take a Child to Pick Berries, but Not to a Slaughterhouse de Jeremy Yunt

A concise history of animal rights philosophy

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Also published as Suffering, Empathy, and Ecstasy: Animal Liberation as the Furthest Reaches of Our Moral Evolution, the short book Why We'll Take a Child to Pick Berries but not to a Slaughterhouse gives a concise history of our philosophical stances towards animal cruelty and exploitation, showing how attitudes have varied widely from Rene Descartes' assertion that animals are mere automatons to St Francis of Assisi's belief that animals could benefit from his preaching of the bible. It's a fascinating read which also encouraged me to note down a number of other authors, expanding my reading and thinking even further. Despite, as I understand it, the book initially being published for an academic audience, I found it easily accessible for a layperson. Yunt's ideas about animal liberation being the next stage in human moral evolution chime strongly with my own perceptions so I already agreed with much of what he …

Also published as Suffering, Empathy, and Ecstasy: Animal Liberation as the Furthest Reaches of Our Moral Evolution, the short book Why We'll Take a Child to Pick Berries but not to a Slaughterhouse gives a concise history of our philosophical stances towards animal cruelty and exploitation, showing how attitudes have varied widely from Rene Descartes' assertion that animals are mere automatons to St Francis of Assisi's belief that animals could benefit from his preaching of the bible. It's a fascinating read which also encouraged me to note down a number of other authors, expanding my reading and thinking even further. Despite, as I understand it, the book initially being published for an academic audience, I found it easily accessible for a layperson. Yunt's ideas about animal liberation being the next stage in human moral evolution chime strongly with my own perceptions so I already agreed with much of what he has to say, yet also discovered new concepts and angles to ponder which was particularly satisfying.

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Vegan nonfiction