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Doug Korty
, December 24, 2020
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Bekoff is the co-founder, with Jane Goodall, of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He has written 18 books. he is an expert on animal cognition. This book is about compassion for animals and is quite intelligent. However, it isn't actually clear what Bekoff is proposing and this is true for most of the animal rights proponents. The issues are very complex, one example, if we stopped eating animals, what would happen to those species? We would not have much incentive to keep them around and feed them. Would they basically disappear or go wild? The ethical issue is complex. One evolutionary biologist said that the 4 billion year history of life is the history of one organism eating another. And there is substantial evidence that animal protein is important for human diets. Humans should have compassion for animals and take care not to harm them or cause unnecessary suffering, but that involves many complex issues. This book is useful but far from a comprehensive answer to all of those issues. There are many books on this and related issues worth reading, see mwir-lifesciences.blogspot. This is part of Midwest Independent Research. Bekoff's books are worth reading.
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