The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
One of the benefits of social media is finding out about all things that interest you, like books. I saw this yesterday on FaceBook, and I have added it to my ‘must read soon’ list of books.
In our world, we still think too much of power over the animals. We tend to think of ourselves as the superior species, therefore creating a position of ‘them’ and ‘us’. Anytime we find ourselves in a ‘them’ and ‘us’ position, it usually turns into a ‘them’ against ‘us’.
I am looking forward to reading this book, and I’m all for expanding our compassion footprint with all creatures.
This quote sums it up very nicely:
“We need books like this. We need writers like Marc Bekoff to remind us of the emotional lives of animals and of our mismanagement of the wild. We need to be reminded that we share this world with other animals, that we do not own it, that we do not even run it. We ignore all of this not only at our peril, but to our great loss.”
— Martha Grimes, bestselling author of Dakota and The Blue Last
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Harmony,
Janet Roper
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