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We need to talk about our relationship with animals - how the latest findings in sociology can help us.

It's complicated - this probably captures the essence of human-animal relationships. While the value of cattle, pigs, and the like is usually measured in price per kilogram, pets are beloved family members and cannot be weighed against anything: some are someone to us, while others are something. More and more people are searching for the "right" way to interact with animals, but this is not so simple. How is it that we pet some animals but slaughter others? And why have we increasingly questioned this unequal treatment in recent years? What dependencies on the animal world are highlighted by zoonoses like Covid today? Based on his research, human-animal relations expert Marcel Sebastian explains the historical, sociological, and cultural reasons behind our ambivalent relationship with our fellow creatures. This is both entertaining and informative, and it certainly helps to reassess one's own perspective.