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The way we think about animals often defies logic. In America, dogs may sleep on our beds, but in Korea, they often end up on the dinner plate. Some people may be horrified by a pet boa constrictor's appetite for live mice, but a cat that roams outside is a far deadlier killer. And for all the talk about vegetarianism, Americans eat more meat than ever before. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, why it's so hard to think straight about animals.
SEGMENT 1:
This hour, why it's so hard to think straight about animals. We start with psychologist Hal Herzog, author of "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: What it's so Hard to Think Straight About Animals." He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his own mixed feelings. Journalist John Woestendiek is the author of "Dog, Inc." which explores the bizarre tale of Bernan McKinney.Steve Paulson was fascinated by this story of the man who received the first commercially cloned dog.
SEGMENT 2:
Jaron Lanier is famous for popularizing "virtual reality" and his recent book "You Are Not a Gadget" makes him one of the go-to thinkers about computers and society. So why is he in a program about animals? As he tells Anne Strainchamps, it's because he loves cephalopods - like the squid and the octopus. Novelist T.C. Boyle has made a career out of finding loaded subjects for his fiction. In his new novel "When the Killing's Done" the face-off is between an animals rights activist and a biologist. He tells Jim Fleming the animal lover, however, is not a very nice guy.
SEGMENT 3:
Barbara King is an anthropologist who studies monkeys and apes, but she also loves the pets she and her husband live with at home. She tells Steve Paulson human and animal history is so intertwined it's hard to imagine one species without the other.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 11-03-06-B.
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| John Woestendiek, Dogs, Inc. (Avery) | |
Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat (Harper) | |
| Barbara J. King, Being With Animals(Doubleday) | |
| Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (Knopf) |  |
| T.C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done (Viking) |  |
- T.C. Boyle
http://www.tcboyle.com/ - Hal Herzog
http://halherzog.com/ - Barbara J. King
http://www.barbarajking.com/ - Jaron Lanier
http://www.jaronlanier.com/ - John Woestendiek
http://www.ohmidog.com/about/
- After Herzog:
Greg & Jere Canote w/ "I Heard the Voice of the Porkchop"
On "The American Fogies: Volume Two"
Rounder Records - After Woestendiek:
Jane Siberry w/ "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog"
On "Bound by the Beauty"
Reprise - After Lanier:
Beatles w/ "Octopus' Garden"
On "The Beatles/1967-1970"
EMI Records - After Boyle:
Quartet San Francisco w/ "Celebration on the Planet Mars"
On "Whirled Chamber Music"
ViolinJazz Recordings - After King:
Jane's Addiction w/ "Pets"
On "Porno for Pyros"
Warner Brothers Records
