Volume 47, Number 11 · June 29, 2000
Our Fellow Animals
By Ian Hacking
The Lives of Animals
by J.M. Coetzee
Princeton University Press, 127 pp., $19.95
Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement
by Peter Singer
Rowman and Littlefield, 222 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results—especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries. Here is the second paragraph of Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee, the South African novelist. He classifies the book as nonfiction.
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