Do we love animals? Many of us feel like we do. Do we also like eating them? For most of us, the answer is still yes. Do we feel good about the gigantic industrial systems of exploitation and extermination we have created to supply us with meat, dairy, eggs and fish? Generally we prefer not to think about it, or the implications of trying to run such a system indefinitely.

 

Today we’re talking to Henry Mance about the relationship between human beings and animals. Henry is the chief features writer at the Financial Times and the author of How To Love Animals: In A Human Shaped World.

For those of you whose interest in animals extends no further than sporting institutions named after animals, we also talk about Man United v Wolves (1.03.00).

 

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