Book List 2009
Alright, here is book list 2009. My goal is only 18 this year. This is to accomodate the hardships of student teaching and, well, teaching this fall. ;-) I'm covered with books through July and then I have to get some more apparently!
( Booklist 2009 )
( Booklist 2009 )
I liked your book a lot. I was sooo glad you exposed WWF and other groups for their hunting agendas. I have so many friends who just don't know about that fact. I learned a lot in that chapter.
I thought you had strong cases against animal testing (esp. that story with the monkey used for Parkinson's research) and groups like ALF using violence. Also, I really thought you raised some interesting points about guide dogs and the ethical issues with that. I hadn't thought about a lot of those ideas before (like taking the dogs to a park once in a while). And yikes, that expose on meat being tainted with arsenic and carbon monoxide was really scary! I'm glad I gave that up!
I guess one thing that I thought was maybe a grayer issue was zoos. Although I agree that many animals (esp. animals who require a lot of space, such as apes and elephants) cannot be raised humanely in zoos, I wonder if we have much choice. I read about endangered species in Asia (with their fur trade, exotic animal trade/eating, shark fining) and I just can't imagine we can convince them to commit to sanctuaries before species are already wiped out. (They already wiped out the Yangtze River Dolphin...). So in those cases, zoos have to be their only option- don't you think?
By the way, I got one of my friends to buy your book so far. ;)
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