TY  - GEN
AU  - Joshipura, Poorva
TI  - Survival at stake: how our treatment of animals is key to human existence 
SN  - 9789356994720
U1  - 179.3 JOS 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Gurugram
PB  - HarperCollins India
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - Violent Crimes
KW  - Animals
KW  - Humans and Animals
KW  - Nature
KW  - Dominance
N2  - With science now recognizing animal consciousness, intelligence, emotion and even morality, there must come an awareness of our own moral responsibilities towards other beings. But there’s another reason to consider animals’ well-being-because it is intertwined with our own.

In Survival at Stake, leading animal rights activist Poorva Joshipura argues passionately that, evolutionarily, humans are far more like other animals than we care to believe. She examines how hunting wildlife leads to pandemics and epidemics, which, in turn, harm us; how the production of meat destroys forests and causes climate change, which, in turn, destroys us; how blood sports hurt both humans and animals; how leather production damages the environment and human health; how animal experimentation is often a threat to public health; how cruelty to animals leads to violent crimes; and so on.

It is Joshipura’s view that if we reject speciesism-the belief in human superiority-and accept that we are animals too, irrevocably interconnected to other species, from the largest elephant to the smallest bee, and a part of, rather than holding dominance over, nature, we can take the necessary steps towards the betterment of all the planet’s inhabitants.

https://harpercollins.co.in/product/survival-at-stake
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