Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals

1 Editor's Introduction to Society and Animals Kenneth J. Shapiro When we pause to reflect on it, the continued broad scope, pervasiveness and varied form of animals in our lives is surprising. The dominant image of the modem world is a human-centered and technologically dense landscape. The baying of horses in the streets has long been drowned out by the whirring of motors. Yet our world is still replete with animals in the street, home, nursing home, consulting room, at the "feeder," in the city alley and city park, in the lab, on the farm, in the stream, in the