Now Available as an Audiobook: ‘Survival at Stake’ by PETA India’s Director Poorva Joshipura With Foreword by Dia Mirza

Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals Is Key to Human Existence by PETA India’s Director Poorva Joshipura and with a foreword by United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador Dia Mirza is now available on Audible and elsewhere audiobooks are found. The book can also be found at your favourite bookstore, or you can order it from Amazon or Flipkart.

Survival at Stake describes how key crises affecting us today – including pandemics, epidemics, antibiotic resistance, climate change, and pollution – are directly linked to our treatment of animals and what each of us can do to change these worrying trends. Be sure to share the book with a friend!

In addition to Audible, the audiobook version is also available on Storytel, Google Play, Libro.fm, and Apple audiobooks.

Science is now recognising animal consciousness, intelligence, emotion, and even morality, and we must be aware of our own moral responsibilities towards other beings. But there’s another reason to consider animals’ well-being: it’s intertwined with our own.

In Survival at Stake, Joshipura argues passionately that humans have much more in common with other animals evolutionarily than many care to believe. She examines how animal experimentation is often a threat to public health, the production of meat destroys forests and causes climate change, hunting wildlife leads to pandemics and epidemics that harm us, leather production harms the environment and human health, blood sports hurt both humans and animals, cruelty to animals leads to violent crimes towards humans, and other issues.

It’s Joshipura’s view that if we reject speciesism – the belief in human superiority – and accept that we are also animals who are irrevocably interconnected to other species, from the largest elephant to the smallest bee, and find our place as part of nature rather than holding dominance over it, we can take the necessary steps towards the betterment of all the planet’s inhabitants.

Praise for Survival at Stake includes the following:

“Compassion is good economics, good science, even the best weapon against climate change. Survival at Stake shows us there is hope for humans if we can learn to treat other species with respect and understanding.”

– Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, former Union Cabinet Minister of the Government of India

 

“Animal and human well-being are intertwined, and Poorva makes that crystal clear. She convinces us that we simply cannot afford to continue to turn a blind eye to animals’ suffering, and the repercussions this is having on the world we share with them. Be kind and think where your food is coming from – anything that involves blood, tears, and suffering is not meant to be on our plate.”

– Mimi Chakraborty, actor and member of Indian Parliament

 

Poorva Joshipura’s first book titled is first-ever in-depth exposé of what happens to animals commonly used for meat, eggs, and dairy in India for what is, after all, a fleeting moment of taste. With a foreword written by actor Richa Chadha, For a Moment of Taste describes the emotional and intellectual capabilities of animals commonly eaten in India, the historical developments that led to our animal-based food production systems, and the conditions that animals are forced to endure from birth to slaughter. In this riveting, in-depth exposé of the horrors that animals exploited and killed for food experience, Poorva also explains the negative impact that animal agriculture has on the environment and human health, along with the consequences if humans don’t change their current eating habits and trends.

So, what are you waiting for?