We admire this book because Professor Herzog is thoughtful, rational, and often funny as he shows students how illogical they are in their relationships with animals. It’s not a polemic. It’s a book that fosters debate and conversation by asking deceptively simple questions:
• Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier?
• What can we learn from biomedical research with mice?
• Who enjoys a better quality of life—the chicken on a dinner plate or a rooster who dies in a Saturday night cockfight?
• Why is it wrong to eat the family dog?
It’s already been adopted in a variety of courses from anthropology and composition to ethics.
Freshman Common Read: Eastern Kentucky University