Animal City
Animal City Why do America's cities look the way they do? They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our…
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Animal City
Why do America's cities look the way they do? They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals.Americans once lived alongside animals.
But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands.
Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people's relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human.As Animal City illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were