Eat, Worship, Fear, Coddle
How do we balance the contradictions in our attitudes toward animals? June 2009
It was springtime, two years ago, and having just finished a book about horses I had gone riding in northeastern Mongolia—the heartland of horse cultures—with my son Geoff and a young lad named Gohe from one of the nomad families. They had moved from the winter shelter of the mountains to the open prairie a month or two before and were settling in for the summer season of calving and lambing and foaling and caring for the health of their…