Monday, September 13, 7-8:30pm, Pure Joy Massage and Yoga, 6260 S. Sunbury Rd., Westerville, Ohio (wearing masks and keeping a proper distance) or you may join us via Zoom

Please note that this is Mason’s fully revised and updated version of this classic work on the origins of animal agriculture and our longstanding contempt for and hatred of nature and animals. This edition just came out in March of 2021. The full title of this book is “An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other.” 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 may be 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.

You may meet us at Pure Joy Studio or join us via Zoom.

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