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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

Hal Herzog

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Hal Herzog

Hal Herzog is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on human-animal relations. His research has been published in prestigious academic journals including Science, the Proceedings of the Royal Society, The American Psychologist, The American Scholar, Journal of Social Issues, and the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, and has been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Scientific American, New Scientist, Slate, CNN, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, MSNBC, Science Daily, the London Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Vancouver Sun, the New Zealand Herald, and India Times. He is Professor of Psychology at Western Carolina University and lives in the Great Smoky Mountains near Asheville, NC, with his wife and their cat Tilly.



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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
Hal Herzog
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  • 9780062010704
  • 9/7/2010
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"Reminiscent of Freakonomics. . . . An agreeable guide to popular avenues of inquiry in the field of anthrzoology."


- The New Yorker
"Wonderful. . . . An engagingly written book that only seems to be about animals. Herzog's deepest questions are about men, women and children."


- Karen Sandstrom, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fun read. . . . What buoys this book is Herzog's voice. He's an assured, knowledgeable and friendly guide."


- Associated Press
"A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience."


—Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought
"Everybody who is interested in the ethics of our relationship between humans and animals should read this book."


—Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human
"An intelligent and amusing book that invites us to think deeply about how we define-and where we limit-our empathy for animals."


—Publishers Weekly
"Herzog delivers provocative popular science at its witty 'gee-whiz' best. With headings such as 'Feeding Kittens to Boa Constrictors,' the book challenges the reader to think through the knotty ethics of human interactions with other species. While it might make you squirm, you'll have fun reading this informal, often-humorous survey of the emerging, interdisciplinary field of anthrozoology."


- Columbus Dispatch
"Herzog argues that moral absolutes are not readily available in a complex world-one that exists in shades of grey, rather than the black and white of animal rights activists and their opponents. . . . Herzog has a clear eye for the essence of a scientific study, but he leavens his narrative with illuminating personal stories and self-deprecating humor."


- Nature
"In his entertaining and cleverly titled book [Herzog] skillfully weaves research studies and personal anecdotes into a tightly knit overview of this exotic field."


- Phillip Manning, Charlotte Observer
"The thing that makes Hal Herzog's new book stand out from any number of other recent books on the subject is its dispassion. He's a professor in the emergent field of "anthrozoology," and he brings an anthropologist's unprejudiced attitude to his research.The calm, reasoned tone of Herzog's book gives one room to think and invites readers to make up their own minds."


- Independent Weekly (Durham, NC)
"Engaging and pleasantly cerebral. . . . When [Herzog is] talking to people about their views, the book is fascinating."


- Time Out Chicago
"In his fascinating new book, Hal Herzog looks at the wild, tortured paradoxes in our relationship with the weaker, if sometimes more adorable, species."


- Kerry Lauerman, Salon
"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.ways we humans try to make sense of these absurdities."


- 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
"One of a kind. I don't know when I've read anything more comprehensive about our highly involved, highly contradictory relationships with animals, relationships which we mindlessly, placidly continue no matter how irrational they may be..This page-turning book is quite something-you won't forget it any time soon."


- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
"Hal Herzog does for our relationships with animals what Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma did for our relationships with food..The book is a joy to read, and no matter what your beliefs are now, it will change how you think."


- Sam Gosling, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
"This is a wonderful book-wildly readable, funny, scientifically sound, and with surprising moments of deep, challenging thoughts. I loved it."


- Robert M. Sapolsky, Neuroscientist, Stanford University, and author of Monkeyluv and A Primate's Memoir