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The small and the equivocal

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April 2012, no. 340

Us and Them: On the importance of animals (Quarterly Essay 45) by Anna Krien

Black Inc., $19.95 pb, 125 pp

The small and the equivocal

by
April 2012, no. 340

Whether the focus is on Japanese whaling or the slaughter of livestock in Indonesia, the Australian public has strong views on how animals should be treated abroad – less so when the problem is closer to home. Anna Krien’s Quarterly Essay is an incisive narrative account of our ‘nuanced and often contradictory relationship’ with animals: ranging from the live cattle trade to our use of primates in science, to our attempts to control native wildlife populations through cyclical breeding and culling.

Alex O’Brien reviews 'Us and Them: On the importance of animals' (Quarterly Essay 45) by Anna Krien

Us and Them: On the importance of animals (Quarterly Essay 45)

by Anna Krien

Black Inc., $19.95 pb, 125 pp

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