Book recommendation
Posted by TinTexas on Feb 27, 2008 · Member since Aug 2006 · 1216 posts
I'm reading a book "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. It's subtitled "The Emotional World of Farm Animals". It's in turn heart-warming and very sad. I'm enjoying it very much. I checked it out of the library at the Jr. College here. So it's probably in a lot of libraries. I highly recommend it!
would this be a good book to ask my boyfriend to read? every time i talk to him about factory farming he gets pissed off and insists not ALL farms are like that. i think he gets offended because his grandma used to farm.
Sariea, has your boyfriend seen PETA's "The Meatrix" (google it) series? It is a really good primer on the horrors of factory farming yet not derogatory towards family farms, plus it has farm animals as characters from the Matrix!!!
would this be a good book to ask my boyfriend to read? every time i talk to him about factory farming he gets pissed off and insists not ALL farms are like that. i think he gets offended because his grandma used to farm.
My DH has promised to read it over this weekend. He's also from a farming background. Back in the early 1950's, his family ran a dairy farm. It was a very different dairy industry than what there is today. That's one thing that he and your boyfriend have to understand. Farming, especially in raising animals, is very different than it was even in the 1960's. I think that if my DH really accepts in his heart that the cows, pigs and chickens that he eats have emotions and are sentient beings, that he will finally give up the little meat that he stills eats. He doesn't eat a lot just those heat and eat lunch re hydratable, no refrigeration necessary things, during the work week. There's not much meat in them but any is too much.
If you can get your BF to read the book, I think that it will at, least change, the way he thinks about animals. Probably change it a lot, since I don't think you'd "take up with" a bad person. Really, someone would have to be very hardhearted to continue to think that the cruel conditions animals are raised and slaughtered don't matter. Good luck! ;)b
A lot of people seem to have a built in defense against realising how sentient and emotional animals are. We were watching a documentary today and they showed a stone wall...suddenly a pig's nose "appeared" in a crack, like a big old rose. We both chuckled, and talked about how cute and smart pigs are...a few minutes later, they are loading this pig into a truck to be trundled off to slaughter, and of course the pig objects to the proceeding! But DH couldn't seem to make the connection between the "cute, smart" animal of a few minutes before with the fear expressed in the squeals--and the chops on his plate.
I guess...if they made the connection...nobody could eat meat, yeah? I wish he would be taken somewhere to actually *see* some animals being slaughtered. Not on TV, in real life. It's different when you're there. Makes more of an impression.