"Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can b…"

"What I've found is that, because most people are deeply disturbed by and feel guilty about eating meat, and yet at th…"

"Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it i…"

"But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is …"

"We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than beca…"

"Carnism is the belief system in which eating certain animals is considered ethical and appropriate. Carnists—people w…"

"The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem, then we never ha…"

"Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know j…"

"There is a vast mythology surrounding meat, but all the myths are in one way or another related to what I refer to as…"

"The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on autopilot and don't even …"