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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals

by Jeffrey Masson - £9.99  Vintage (2005)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780099285748 | ISBN 10: 0099285746

This is a book about farm animals - chickens, cows, sheep and goats - and what they think and feel.
 
As with his previous bestsellers on animal emotions, Jeffrey Masson reveals that these creatures, so often despised or abused, feel complex emotions - among them love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief and sorrow. The domesticated animals which live on our farms are very little removed from their wild ancestors, and keep the emotions that belong to those animals when they lived fre. This means that the confinement farm animals are subjected to is painful to them and that those enduring factory farm conditions are suffering little less than torture.
 
Thinking about the wild ancestors of farm animals allows us to answer many questions that were once considered unanswerable. Those answers, however uncomfortable, are at last providing insights into the personalities and needs of the animals on whom we depend.

"Compassionate, compelling and often tear-jerking... Anyone who has a heart will be reduced to tears, if not to vegetarianism, by Masson's argument."
(Daily Mail)

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