What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

“In Despret’s book, each chapter is a meditation on a topic. And the topics are very diverse: animals and art, animals and empathy, animals and politics, animals and sex, animals and research. And they are all very short—only about 5-10 pages each. There are a lot of chapters that that bring to the foreground how animal behaviour is de-formed and de-natured in the laboratory. I think for Vinciane Despret, the conclusion is that we should strive to study animals in non-laboratory settings, or at least we should be more aware of how the image that we get of animals in these rigid, austere, artificial spaces is a kind of mirage.” Read more...

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David Peña-Guzmán, Philosopher