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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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"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
"Herzog writes about big ideas with a light touch. . . . Insightful, compassionate and humorous."


- Kirkus Reviews
"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
"Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is 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. Readers will welcome Herzog's eye opening discussions, presented with compassion and humor. 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. Presenting cutting-edge research and real-world stories with wit, sophistication, and charm, Herzog shows us that the relationships we have with animals, even the ones that just a minute ago seemed so sensible, are riddled with contradictions and complexities. 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, and author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
 
“As Hal Herzog persuasively argues in Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, we think and feel about animals in all sorts of ways, often in a highly confused, irrational manner that tells us tons about our values as a species. 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