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You don't have to be an animal rights activist to take an interest in how we treat other creatures. All of us, with few exceptions, use animals in some way: for food, research, recreation and companionship. In Britain we eat around a billion chickens every year, while 60% of all…

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1 author picked Treated Like Animals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I had the pleasure of meeting Alick soon after reading thishe was every bit as interesting and accessible as this fascinating book.

Perhaps the most important message for me was the importance of recognizing animals as individualscapable of experiencing joy, fear, and pain.

This helped me in the work for my bookit is all too easy to remove individuals and their suffering from the equation.

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