The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling
author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with "admiration
and empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for
living more kindly toward them.
In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about
who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions,
intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In
Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a
concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising
discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for
life, that fish "sing" underwater, and that elephants use their trunks
to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.
Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of
animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to
avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it's medicine,
product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better
options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can
substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions
of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of
animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and
elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics.
Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings
deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put
this new understanding into action.
