Bill Wasik And Monica Murphy: Our Kindred Creatures

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I think that s often the solution when feeling sort of bogged down in the issues of our day is when you zoom out and you look at sort of the whole arc of change you can sort of get inspired that yeah we ve come a long way – Monica Murphy Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine and Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and writer Their latest book Our Kindred Creatures How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals comes out today April 23rd It s a book about moral change and a moral revolution one that took place from the 1860s to the 1890s in the United States Over those three decades the way we treated animals completely changed It was the time of the birth of the ASPCA of many SPCAs of the anti-vivisection movement and of the first animal shelters It was a time of massive change Even though I think most people who listen to this podcast know that we need a much larger moral revolution in terms of how we treat animals this book gave me so much hope that it can actually be done Please listen share and read Our Kindred Creatures https www penguinrandomhouse com books 634494 our-kindred-creatures-by-bill-wasik-and-monica-murphy Click here to visit this podcast episode