Treated Like Animals

Improving the Lives of the Creatures We Own, Eat and Use

ALICK SIMMONS

Explains how to make informed and intelligent choices about your own relationship with animals.

Gives practical and accessible insights into the various ways animals are used, and sets out alternatives.

Advocates an approach to animal exploitation based on science and ethics.

Society’s arbitrary and inconsistent grouping of animals according to their ‘use’ means that we tolerate institutionalised inhumane exploitation for some while striving to protect others. The author advocates an approach to animal exploitation based on science and a universal ethics.

Praise For Treated Like Animals

This fascinating and engaging book challenges us all to make better lives for animals.

Chris Packham, broadcaster and author of Back to Nature

Marvellous: clear-headed, clear-sighted, rigorously unsentimental but compassionate, impeccably informed and researched, and downright wise. A companionable guide through complex and controversial territory. It deserves to be a canonical text in the welfare debate.

Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild and Being a Beast

A thoughtful, well-informed contribution to the animal-welfare and conservation debate.

Jane Dalton, The Independent

An important book at a crucial time in our lengthy relationship with the animals we exploit. Thoughtful, informative and firm, Simmons skilfully leads us through the complex maze of animal welfare issues and brings us to a stark realisation - for all that we have done, we must do better.

Professor Adam Hart, biologist, broadcaster and author of Unfit for Purpose

Biographical Note

Alick Simmons is a veterinarian and a naturalist. After a 35-year public service career controlling epidemic diseases of livestock, in 2015 he began conservation volunteering. As well as practical tasks such as surveying waders and catching cranes, he advises a number of conservation organisations on animal welfare and ethics.

PUBLICATION DATE 01 February 2023

PUBLISHER

Pelagic Publishing

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781784273415 | £19.99 | $23.99 eBook available

Audiobook available

SIZE

234 x 156 mm

PAGES

272pp

BIC SUBJECTS

HPQ, JFFZ, RNFF, RNK, TVF, WNF

BISAC SUBJECTS

PHI005000, NAT039000, NAT038000, NAT011000, TEC003070, NAT001000

RIGHTS

World