Our Kindred Creatures How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals [Audiobook]

On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts's animal-welfare society and the American ✅Publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nation's earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movement's crosshairs were transformational figures in their own right: animal impresarios such as P.T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nation's rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated. In recounting this remarkable period of moral transition-which, by the turn of the twentieth century, would give birth to the attitudes we hold toward animals today-Wasik and Murphy challenge us to consider the obligations we still have to all our kindred creatures.