VEGAN BOOK GROUP ~ An Unnatural Order (March 2021 edition) by Jim Mason

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***Note that this is Mason's fully revised and updated version fo the classic work on the origins of animal agriculture and our longstanding contempt for and hatred of nature and animals. This edition just came out March of this year. The full title is An Unnatural Order the Roots of Our Destruction of Nature. Mason's first edition was released in 2005.

*** As with some of our book group books a disclaimer is in place that some subject matter may not be comfortable or triggering to read.

In 1993, Jim Mason, journalist, advocate, and pioneering figure in the contemporary animal advocacy movement, published An Unnatural Order—a sweeping overview of the origins of our hatred and destruction of the natural world and its creatures, from the dawn of agriculture to the present day. Now fully revised and updated to reflect developments in paleoanthropology and ethology, as well as greater awareness of, and urgency regarding, the climate crisis, An Unnatural Order offers an expansive overview of what has changed (both for good and for ill) and what has unfortunately remained the same.

His message is clear: until we grapple with the question of the animal, and our relationship with animality and the natural world, we will not be able to confront the consequences of our perpetuation of environmental destruction, biodiversity collapse, and our alienation from the Earth and one another. As brilliantly polemical and richly descriptive as it was when it was published almost three decades ago, this new version of An Unnatural Order is sure to excite a passionate debate about our role in either saving the ecosystems upon which all species (including our own) rely, or bringing it all to an end.