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Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, shows that domestication of animals is not an act of exploitation but a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy that has benefited humans and animals alike.
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The Covenant of the Wild : Why Animals Chose Domestication ; With a New Preface
author
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Budiansky, Stephen.
publisher
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Yale University Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780300079937
ebook isbn13
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9780585348841
language
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English
subject
Domestic animals--Origin, Domestic animals--Evolution, Philosophy of nature.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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GN799.A4B83 1999eb
ddc
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636
subject
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Domestic animals--Origin, Domestic animals--Evolution, Philosophy of nature.
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The Covenant of the Wild
Why Animals Chose Domestication
with a New Preface
Stephen Budiansky
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Copyright 1992 by Stephen Budiansky Preface to the Yale Edition copyright 1999 by Stephen Budiansky
First published in 1992 by William Morrow and Company This paperback edition published in 1999 by Yale University Press
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.
Printed in the United States of America.
Budiansky, Stephen. The covenant of the wild: why animals chose domestication; with a new preface / Stephen Budiansky. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-300-07993-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Domestic animalsOrigin. 2. Domestic animals Evolution. 3. Philosophy of nature. I. Title. [GN799.A4B83 1999] 636dc21 99-17290 CIP
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Contents
Preface to the Yale Edition
vii
Preface to the First Edition
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxi
I Visions of Nature
1
II Civilization's Progress; or, Who Invented the Dog?
19
III The Virtues of Defenselessness
43
IV The Species That Came in from the Cold
69
V Youthful Designs
95
VI No Turning Back
113
VII Human Pieties
127
VIII A Natural Ethic
153
Reference List
173
Index
181
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Preface: To the Yale Edition
The seven years since The Covenant of the Wild was published have seen a number of changes in human attitudes toward animals and the natural world. The central premise of this bookthat the relationship between man and domestic animals can be rightly seen as a natural product of evolution, no different from mutualistic relationships that exist throughout natureis an idea that has now secured an established place in the debate over man's treatment of animals. A number of organized groups dedicated to the responsible use of animals by people have embraced this view, and it seems to have struck a particular chord with conscientious veterinarians, farmers, and hunters who are concerned about their responsibility to the animals that are bound to man by thousands of years of mutual gain. Part of this change came about, I think, because the mutualistic viewpoint adds a scientific dimension to an emotional truth; people who work with animals knew this in their bones all along. Part of it, too, occurred because mutualism stakes out a welcome middle ground in a debate all too often characterized by the extremes.
The extreme abolitionist agenda of the animal-rights groups has made little headway in the past decade, and if anything there has been something of a societal backlash against their more outrageous and criminal acts. The generally favorable press coverage of animal-rights groups that
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prevailed in the 1970s and early 1980s began to shift in the late 1980s, and that trend has continued in the 1990s, with journalists exercising far more critical scrutiny of the groups' claims, tactics, and motives. The animal-rights groups have made almost no progress in their abolitionist campaigns against animal agriculture and pet ownershipperhaps unsurprisingly, given the popularity of dogs, cats, and steak.
But they have been more successful, and more insidiously so, in their attacks on hunting and agricultural practice, and here they have been assisted in achieving their aims by the ever-vanishing nature of our urban and suburban culture's store of actual experience with or knowledge of the natural world and its particularly reconditeand particularly harshbrand of cause and effect. It is a necessary corollary to the simplistic morality of the animal-rights movement that there is no such thing as ecology, in the sense of complex interconnections among living things. These interconnections often have perverse consequences, and several events of the past few years that have underscored this fact are worth mentioning. Careful ecological studies in the eastern United States, for example, have shown that in areas where deer populations have exploded following restrictions on hunting (and the abandonment of agriculture and the concomitant increase in secondary forest), the populations of rare songbirds have declined dramatically. Forest regeneration comes to a complete halt as deer browse saplings to the ground. The deer themselves suffer, too, in ways they never would as the targets of hunters. Starvation and disease are not pleasant ways to die.
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