With a foreword by award-winning actor and vegan activist Joaquin Phoenix, the new book, HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, exposes our cruel relationship with the non-human animals we wear, eat, and sacrifice in the name of tradition and religion.
The 320-page collection of photographs, compiled by editors Jo-Anne McArthur, Keith Wilson, and Dave Griffin, is slated to be released on November 17 and features the work of 40 international photojournalists.
“The photojournalists represented in HIDDEN have entered some of the darkest, most unsettling places in the world,” said Phoenix. “The images they have captured are a searing reminder of our unpardonable behavior towards animals and will serve as beacons of change for years to come.”
People consume an estimated 80 billion land animals every year, and roughly 75 percent of infectious diseases are spread from animals to humans — a danger we are reminded of daily as the world continues to combat the ongoing zoonotic coronavirus pandemic.
The brutal depictions in HIDDEN serve as a call-to-action regarding the harsh realities faced by animals across the globe on a daily basis, with a focus on atrocities that are largely concealed from public view.
“These photos prove there is an emergency confronting animals globally, from industrial farming to climate change,” McArthur said in a press release. They “provide valuable insight into the relevance of animal suffering to human health.”
“The animals we breed, sell, and kill for our dinner plate — creatures we break and maim for sport and tradition — share many of the same emotions that we do: feelings of sadness and joy, pain and fear, love and grief,” Wilson seconded. “The images in HIDDEN expose our brutal treatment of animals who deserve far greater respect and mercy than our actions have shown.”
Lady Freethinker applauds these brave animal advocates for exposing the harsh realities animals endure. All living beings deserve to be seen and heard.
People who does not realize these gentle, innocent animals pains, sufferings are brain dead, cold hearted evil people. If not anyone should understand if the animal is breathing and living they all equally feel the pains & sufferings as same as we do. I am glad more and more kind people are expressing the truth about the other sentient beings feelings & importance of their lives with learning to respect & care for them, and consider them as same as they are one of us.
Awesome.
This absolutely awesome and necessary THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO SPEAK UP FOR OUR ANIMALS__they our a part of our family, they are our loyal friends and companions–THANK YOU THANK YOU
Hello! Is this book on Anthropocene to be sold in France as well ?
Thanks to J. Phœnix for his tremendous action & support to animals !!!!
Animals are not for our entertainment or to be our slaves.
Such a human centric species we are. Animals are thought of as laser beings and their suffering and pain too rarely acknowledged. I hope a lot of people will buy or at least look at this book. I have not eaten animals for almost 45 years and would have become vegan sooner than 22 years ago if i had thought more or known what goes on for them. We are truly the most dangerous and ultimate invasive species on the planet despite the good and caring people who exist.
No animal should ever suffer, the humans that inflict pain and misery to animals need to have the same done to them.
WHEN WILL ANIMAL ABUSE END??? I HOPE EVERY ANIMAL ABUSER GETS THE SAME TREATMENT DONE TO THEM!!
We have to be thankful for people like Joaquin Phoenix to show us what is important in our heart and soul for animals. That a life without true feeling of pity and compassion for all animals is an empty life follow by loneliness and sadness.