How to Love Animals

{{Short description|2021 book by Henry Mance}}

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How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World is a book by British writer Henry Mance, published in the US by Viking in July 2021.{{Cite book |last=Mance |first=Henry |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1226175333 |title=How to love animals : in a human-shaped world |date=2021 |isbn=978-1-9848-7965-3 |edition=First |location=New York |oclc=1226175333}} Favorably commented in the Financial Times,{{Cite news |date=2022-06-11 |title=The rich interior lives of pigs |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7bff5903-5cb9-425b-8848-e0c6008e5de2 |access-date=2022-07-04}} The Guardian,{{Cite web |date=2021-05-01 |title=How to Love Animals by Henry Mance review – the case against modern farming |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/01/how-to-love-animals-by-henry-mance-review-the-case-against-modern-farming |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} and The Telegraph,{{Cite news |last=Ings |first=Simon |date=2021-12-09 |title=The best smart thinking and self-improvement books to buy for Christmas 2021 |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/best-books-smart-thinking-self-help-buy-read-christmas-2021/ |access-date=2022-07-04 |issn=0307-1235}} the book denounces the thoughtless but profound suffering caused each day to millions of individual animals worldwide during the raising and slaughtering of livestock that takes place, allegedly for the sole purpose of bringing nutritionally superfluous meat to the plates of the dominant species, and thus please their pretentious palates. Mance advocates an ethic of compassion towards other species, including a vegan diet and a low-impact lifestyle.