- Overview
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This story delivers an uncomfortable truth about animals hidden by human greed.
- Book Intro
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The Eyes of Living Animals are Beautiful delivers a story about an uncomfortable truth hidden by human greed and opens a door to new awareness about life. Included are the images of twisted reality attributable to a distorted view of living things from the problem of abandoned animals that bluntly show the trend of disrespect for life, to the reality of brutal treatment of animals in the blind spot not reached by law, and to the stockbreeding of animals that degenerated into a tool for making profits. Instead of appealing to emotions, this book strives to share the value of ‘living together’ along with a just sense.
We live while establishing various forms of relationships with animals either consciously or unconsciously. We form a relationship with companion animals analogous to that with family members while we eat more meat, use animals for production of clothes and bags, and visit animals at the zoo as attractions. Such entrenched relationships are so familiar but not desirable. On one hand, the awareness of animals has been improved to the extent of using the term of companion animals instead of pets. On the other hand, we easily buy and abandon animals as a means of convenience and profit or brutally treat animals.
The author, a veterinarian, tells us a story based on his hands-on experiences of animal abuse, minor and significant, he had while being involved with medical treatment, volunteer activities and activities for rescuing animals for the last 20 years. He answers reasonably and truthfully in response to numerous questions and bold contradiction in the eyes of his adolescent daughter.
Included are why the author, upon finding an abandoned animal, was reluctant to send it to an animal rescue organization, why animal activists are particularly against dog meat while they are fine with eating beef and pork, and why we should protect even animals despite numerous poverty-stricken people. This book reminds us of the problems we frequently face in our daily lives but hold little of our real interest and opens a door to the new awareness about life.
- About the Author
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Park Jongmoo
Park Jongmoo is a veterinarian and the director of the Peace and Life Veterinary Clinic as well as an ITEC therapist. He is taking a doctoral course in Bioethics at Catholic University and is a member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (AHVMA). He worked as the director in chief of the volunteer medical service team that belonged to KARA, a civic animal protection group. The books written by Park include Every Life Co-operates, Canine Atopic Dermatitis Heal with the Reparative Power of Nature and The Eyes of Living Animals Are Beautiful and he co-authored Animals, You Can See as Much as You Know, the coursebook for animal love published by KARA. His thesis includes "Ethical Review on Euthanasia of Abandoned Animals and Advanced Recommendation through Examples".
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