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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Why humans love, use, and abuse animals
Description: Jonathan Bastian talks with Susan Orlean about our love and relationship with animals. Orlean, staff writer for the New Yorker and acclaimed author of several books, discusses her latest collection of essays, “On Animals,” in which she explores her fascination and curiosity with all creatures, both feathered and four legged, and asks what our interaction with animals tells us about ourselves. Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamined.substack.com/subscribe