Mama’s Last Hug, Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans De Waal is a book about the study of chimpanzees and other animals over the course of many decades. De Waal, one of the worlds leading primatologists, concludes that we should be treating animals better since they too have emotions. That this is still unknown to so many people is baffling to me.

I’m glad this book is out if this is what is needed to help change the minds of the majority who treat animals as if they are machines, and if it helps bring awareness to the horrible way they live in factory farms and laboratories, for it is truly a crime. Anyone whose spent any real time with animals understands this.