Wellness Radio With Dr. J

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Simone Ghelli, author of The Suffering Animal: Life Between Weakness and Power, to explore the concept of the animal in consciousness.Are we becoming more aware of our existence as humans and can we start to be better people in the way in which we treat animals in this world?The philosophical exploration of the non-human and human worlds is something that has not been spoken in the past. What are the similarities and differences within the animal kingdom, such as consciousness, reality, rational living, superiority, control, and survival.There are two paradigms within one existence and that is called the animal kingdom.  When we are asking ‘How do we know when an animal is suffering’, does consciousness also exist in the animals and we perhaps do not know the communication language that all are speaking. What we see is the human using the common ground of a human consciousness to evaluate, control, direct, and command the life cycle survival of a non-human.Have we created a con