The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals Audiobook (Free)

A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use industry to promote the welfare of all living creatures, through the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, Chief executive/CEO from the Humane Culture of america and New York Times bestselling writer of The Bond.

In the mid-nineteenth century, New Bedford, Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world. A half-gallon of sperm oil cost around $1,400 about The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Individuals are Changing the Lives of Pets in today’s dollars, and whale populations had been hunted to near extinction for profit. But using the advent of fossil fuels, the whaling sector collapsed, now, the area around New Bedford is instead referred to as one of the better areas in the globe for whale viewing.

This transformation is emblematic of a new sort of economic revolution, one that has the power to transform the continuing future of animal welfare. In The Humane Overall economy, Wayne Pacelle, Chief executive/CEO of the Humane Culture of america, explores how our daily financial decisions influence the success and wellbeing of pets, and how we can make options that better support them. Though just about everyone has hardly ever harpooned a ocean creature, clubbed a seal, or wiped out an animal for profit, we are all portion of an interconnected internet which has a huge impact on animal welfare, and the decisions we make-whether assisting local, not industrial, farming; adopting a rescue puppy or a shelter animal rather than one from a “pup mill”; avoiding products that compromise the habitat of wild species; or even seeing Cirque du Soleil instead of Ringling Brothers-do matter. The Humane Economy shows us how what we perform everyday as consumers can benefit pets, the surroundings, and human society, and why these decisions can make economic sense aswell.