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joramz's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Such an amazing read. I took my time with this book. I'm not a slow place reader, but I really wanted to let every bit of what I was reading soak in and be chewed over. So it's taken me a year, but now I'm going to reread it cause it was that needed.
spoop's review against another edition
4.5
most of the essays were top notch and i learned a lot. however by the end it did get a bit repetitive. great book
seedreads's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
A nice collection of essays that make us reflect on the human-animal binary. The Ko sisters describe the link between racism and animal discrimination, and showing how intrinsic they are to colonialism. They postulate, and rightly so, that we cannot achieve animal rights until we achieve equal rights for all beings, starting with all humans of any race/gender/nationality/ability.
The only issue I found with this book is editing - it becomes repetitive, both throughout a chapter and between chapters. However, the Ko sisters make their points across in an easy and understandable way.
The only issue I found with this book is editing - it becomes repetitive, both throughout a chapter and between chapters. However, the Ko sisters make their points across in an easy and understandable way.
thesamedeepwaterasyou's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
emosheeran's review against another edition
5.0
This book deserves more than 5 stars, everyone NEEDS TO READ IT. This is what should be required reading in schools
christiona's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
adforperu's review against another edition
4.0
Giving this anything below 5 stars seems unjust, and this lies solely on me. The Ko sisters are simply on a much higher intellectual plane than I, and as such I really struggled with some of the concepts discussed in the book. Having said that, it was still such a great read, and mind-blowing how everything you think you know about anti-racism and veganism is almost certainly through a Eurocentric lens. It's easy to become defensive when you hear ideas outside of the mainstream but the Ko sisters constantly challenge this to the point where it doesn't sound so radical after all. Their theories on the "human-animal binary" being intrinsically linked to racism, sexism, any other -isms is something that I'd struggle to explain myself, yet they explain it perfectly. True animal liberation is the liberation for all minoritised beings. Society has a very vivid idea of what a "human" is, and as such it can justify anything "below" that as an "animal". The word "animal" will then take on negative connotations, and parallels can easily be drawn between the oppression of animals and the oppression of minoritised groups. If it seems like I'm waffling here, you're right.. I'm just trying to make sense of it all!
Probably an inappropriate and trivial comparison to make, but reading this book is a little like when I first watched the Matrix; I didn't understand a lot of it, but I really enjoyed the journey. As I read more books of this nature, I'd like to come back to it one day and hopefully wrap my head around it a little better.
Probably an inappropriate and trivial comparison to make, but reading this book is a little like when I first watched the Matrix; I didn't understand a lot of it, but I really enjoyed the journey. As I read more books of this nature, I'd like to come back to it one day and hopefully wrap my head around it a little better.