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An immersive entry into animal festivals nationwide that explores how humans tell stories about animals and the stories they tell about themselves in the process

What makes a human different from an animal? Humans triangulate who they are—and what makes them special—through their relationship with animals. In hundreds of annual animal festivals around the world humans gawk at, demonize, or adore animals. Why? What value do these carnivals and their rituals hold, and why, when the animals are in distress, do humans insist that the show must go on?

In Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human esteemed animal welfare lawyer Elizabeth MeLampy attends eight quintessential animal festivals and meets the groundhogs, butterflies, rattlesnakes, lobsters, sled dogs, and other creatures humans use to build community, induce fear, and transmit meaning. She shows how profoundly symbolism affects the way humans interact with animals and explores what that says about them. In the process she raises the profound questions of why the human impulse is to dominate, and if in today’s enlightened age humans might find the compassion to craft a new path, one that frees animals from suffering.