Barbara J King
Anthropology Professor, Science Writer, College of William and Mary
Barbara J King is emerita professor of anthropology at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is the author of seven books, most recently How Animals Grieve (2013), Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat (2017) and Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild (2021).
Written by Barbara J King
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Bioethics
The pig on your plate
That pigs are smart and sensitive is not in doubt. How can we justify continuing to kill them for food?
Barbara J King
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Biology
Kindred spirits
Animals have friends, enemies, allies and life-long companions. Human relationships aren’t so unique after all
Barbara J King