Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0099285746 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Eye-opening, warm, thoroughly engaging" -- Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA "Wrenching, yet vitally important At last a voice for the domestic animals who need it most. "An entertaining survey of the main characteristics of farmed animals and a sobering account of how these have been ignored" Guardian "Presents information and anecdotes without ever preaching" Independent on Sunday "Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument" Daily Mail
As with his previous bestsellers on animal emotions, Jeffrey Masson reveals that these creatures, so often despised or abused, feel complex emotions - among them love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief and sorrow. Thinking about the wild ancestors of farm animals allows us to answer many questions that were once considered unanswerable. Those answers, however uncomfortable, are at last providing insights into the personalities and needs of the animals on whom we depend.. This is a book about farm animals - chickens, cows, sheep and goats - and what they think and feel. The domesticated animals which live on our farms are very little removed from their wild ancestors, and keep the emotions that belong to those animals when they lived free. This means that the confinement farm animals are subjected to is painful and that those enduring factory farm conditions are suffering little less than torture
Three Stars Judith E. Hamelin Great price on a pre read book. A few pages with tears, but readable, fast delivery, good deal. Jan Allegretti said Opening our eyes and our hearts. Congratulations and thanks to Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson for another insightful and inspiring book. "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon" lives up to the legacy of "When Elephants Weep" and his other books, as it opens our eyes to the reality of the animals' world so that our . Vivien Dostine said Are we deities Mr Masson?. I read this book from cover to cover and by about chapter Are we deities Mr Masson? I read this book from cover to cover and by about chapter 3 was beginning to ask myself what exactly is it that Mr Masson thinks we are? or should be? Apart from vegans like himself of course.Throughout the book he refers to the 'natural' life that these animals should. was beginning to ask myself what exactly is it that Mr Masson thinks we are? or should be? Apart from vegans like himself of course.Throughout the book he refers to the 'natural' life that these animals should
Since then he has published nine books on animals and their emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats and most recently, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand. . Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. The book he wrote with Susan McCarthy on animal emotions, When Elephants Wee