Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals

"Us and them on the importance of animals" is a beautifully written and almost lyrical essay on our complex relationships with animals. Anna Krien does not preach: she is one of us, comfused, perplexed, and challenged by questions about the choices we make about the animals in our lives, as pets, as food, as hunted, as mascots and as the captive subjects of our pharmacuetical industry. As she says, "I am not weighing up whether our treatment of animals is just, because it isn't. ... The real question is, just how much of this injustice are we prepared to live with?" -- Anna Krien, Us & ThemSee Anna in conversation here: [...]

Incredibly insightful. Posing another viewpoint which is entirely valid.