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Society’s arbitrary and inconsistent grouping of animals according to their ‘use’ means that we tolerate institutionalised inhumane exploitation for some while striving to protect others. The author advocates an approach to animal exploitation based on science and a universal ethics.
This is a brilliant book and I recommend that you buy it and read it.
Refreshingly, [Simmons] is far from puritanical in matters concerning animals... His book is a welcome contribution to debates about the use and abuse of animals and will surely serve to prompt further discussion.
Perhaps in sixty years we’ll look back on Treated Like Animals as helping to initiate a new era of openness, transparency and citizen engagement in all forms of the exploitation of animals.
A thought-provoking tome...This is a book that sets out to ask difficult questions. It does not always provide answers, but it reminds the reader, farmer, animal rights activist or conservationist that there are no easy answers.
Alick Simmons is a veterinarian and a naturalist. After a 35-year public service career controlling epidemic diseases of livestock, culminating in eight years as the UK’s Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, in 2015 he began conservation volunteering. As well as practical tasks such as surveying waders and catching baby cranes, he advises a number of conservation organisations on animal welfare and ethics. He is chair of the Zoological Society of London’s Ethics Committee for Animal Research and sits as an independent member of ethics committees for both the RSPB and the National Trust. He is former chair of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare and the Humane Slaughter Association.