Most human emotions can be observed in other animals-grief, anger, dominance, jealousy, compassion, altruism, gratitude the book offers examples. The authors are sharply critical of animal research in psychology, which they liken to torture. They argue that scientists use a double standard, depending on whether the behavior is human or nonhuman (``a cheetah is not frightened by a lion it shows flight behavior''). This subject is avoided by many behavioral scientists for fear that they will be accused of anthropomorphism the authors look carefully at that issue. With science writer McCarthy, he shows that animals of all kinds lead complex emotional lives. So the psychoanalyst turned his attention and analysis to these other species. (Nov.When Masson searched modern scientific literature on the subject of emotions in nonhuman animals, he found very little. Despite the holes in his preachy argument, his narrative contains some solid, fascinating information on the emotional life of farm animals. His peripatetic style lacks transitions, for example going from cock fighting, which gets only one paragraph, to meditations on why roosters crow at dawn. Arguing that all farming of animals for food is wrong (even eggs), Masson rebuts the fallacy that farm animals would die out without us, but doesn't say how we are to make the transition. The text is pocked with far-fetched hypotheses (e.g., "A woman coming across a young lamb in ancient times might well have nursed the lamb" to explain the domestication of sheep). But there is no subtlety in his sometimes nauseatingly Edenic anecdotes: abused animals always come around and we live happily ever after. Marthe Kiley-Worthington, of Little Ash Eco-Farm in England, whose cow does agility tricks he also interviews those who raise animals for profit. He relates how a pot-bellied pig saved the life of her keeper and visits Dr. Each animal gets a chapter, in which Masson interweaves folklore, science and literature (he quotes Darwin, Gandhi and the Bible) with his observations of the animals' behaviors.
Here Masson ( Dogs Never Lie About Love) makes the case that the animals humans eat on a regular basis-pigs, chickens, sheep, cows and ducks-feel, think and suffer.
The horrors have been pointed out before-that factory farm chickens are genetically altered, debeaked without anesthesia, and crammed into overcrowded coops that calves are separated from their mothers and kept in dark crates to become veal.
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