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How to Love Animals

How to Love Animals

By Henry Mance

How to Love Animals: in a Human–Shaped World. Viking. 2021.

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22 mins read

17 Key insights

A brief summary of How to Love Animals

The shameful realization of how humans continue to destroy the earth even as it hurtles toward ecological catastrophe, and how we can turn that destruction around, starting with showing some love for the animals that inhabit our planet. Please be aware: This summary contains references to animal abuse and inhumane killings which may be disturbing to some readers.

Key insights in How to Love Animals

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What do you get from this book? Essential ways to improve all life on earth with better treatment of animals
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We may claim to be animal lovers, but what have we done for them lately?
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Animals existed for millions of years before humans populated the planet and gradually disrupted their way of life
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We justify slaughtering animals in many ways to feed the world’s eight billion humans
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Going vegan will help save the animals and our planet—and it’s easier to do than we think
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Can there be dining tables without meat and dairy? Of course, and the world will be better for it!
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Fish populations are dwindling due to humans killing them extensively and cruelly
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Many animal lovers frown upon hunting as a practice, but it can help our ecosystem more than you think
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Animals have saved human lives, but usually at the sacrifice of their own
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Zoos could be an acceptable environment for some wild animals but also need to be improved
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Humans can’t survive without animals; animals can’t survive without their natural habitat
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The pet industry is huge worldwide, but are our pets truly better off living with us?
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Ingenuity and technology can be used to understand animals more, but it has also negatively affected them
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Here’s what we can do, individually and collectively, to right the wrongs we’ve bestowed upon our world
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Summary of the key insights
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read How to Love Animals

Animal lovers • environmentalists • conservationists • farmers • pet owners • those who want to save the earth and its inhabitants by optimizing its sustainability

About the author of How to Love Animals

Henry Mance is the chief features writer for the Financial Times. He was named interviewer of the year for the 2017 British Press Awards and often appears on BBC Radio and TV news programs. Mance has also made appearances on CNN and PBS. How to Love Animals is his first book.

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