Download Quarterly Essay 45: Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals AudioBook Free
For the very first time ever sold, humans be seated unchallenged at the top of the food string. Once we encroach on the outrageous and an enormous wave of extinctions gathers pressure, how has our marriage to animals evolved? In this stunning little bit of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the modern day creature kingdom and our place in it. From dogs and cats to food, from wildness to knowledge tests, Krien also unveils how pets or animals are faring in this " new world " order. Examples add the joyful to the deeply unsettling. As Krien delves deeper, she finds that pets or animals can result in primal emotions in us, which we are often not eager to acknowledge. "Us and Them" is a clear-eyed check out how exactly we do - and should - treat pets or animals, and a genuine look at everything from animal attorneys to Indonesian abattoirs. Additionally it is a meditation on humanness and animalness, sameness and otherness, that sheds new light on our modern day obsession with pets or animals.
