Reviews for The Roles Of Amino Acid Chelates In Animal Nutrition

The average rating for The Roles Of Amino Acid Chelates In Animal Nutrition based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-20 00:00:00 Christof De Meyer As an anth major, I was very eager to read an anthropologist's contributions to animal rights/critical animal studies literature. There is just so much I believe anthropologists can offer in taking a cross-cultural approach which challenges the universalization and naturalization of the animal industrial complex many have come to take for granted as inevitable. And this book was fantastic. The last section on animal-adopted humans in particular was disturbing but very interesting to think about. Quick bullet point summary: -connections between sexism + racism and speciesism (showing how feminism may be combined with animal rights) -animal culture, language, consciousness, sociality (when she goes through her section on animal communication experiments it really makes you feel like animals are basically earth aliens) -critiques sociobiology -how Westerners have come to our views on humans and animals and the boundaries between them (looks at Darwin and Marxist thinkers in particular) -factory farming and how it literally deanimalizes animals by alienating them from their bodies, social relations, and environment, as well as transforming living beings into single "business-like" functions for profit -the animal industrial complex (she is credited with coining the term) -especially critiques how the modern sciences have been based on objectifying nature (the ideology of a feminine nature needing to be dominated in order to reach its full potential) -even covers histories of the evolution of animal domestication, capitalism, and homo sapiens In the end she introduces her desire to see a field (anthrozoology!) which would bring anthropological empathy to the study of animal worlds.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-24 00:00:00 Daniel Bossy I really enjoyed this book! In many ways it was a light, fun, fast read, but it also packed a punch. Life is a series of relationships with animals (human and non), and this clever book helps you understand their intersections just a little bit better.