The Ethics of What We Eat – Why Our Food Choices Matter
The Ethics of What We Eat – Why Our Food Choices Matter By Peter Singer and Jim Mason The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and...
Humane Decisions Website
The CAFO Reader – the Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
The CAFO Reader – the Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories By Daniel Imhoff Summary: The CAFO Reader “is the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world’s leading experts....
Dominion – The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Dominion – The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy By Matthew Scully Summary: Dominion takes the reader to the many places where animals are exploited today for human entertainment or...
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry By Gail A. Eisnitz In Slaughterhouse, Gail Eisnitz looks at the radical changes over the last 25 years of the meat-packing...
Vaslav Nijinsky Said He Felt Their Pain
Vaslav Nijinsky said, “I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I...
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants,” says Pollan. Our industrialized Western diet has brought us cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and a multitude...
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution By John Robbins In this book, best-selling author John Robbins examines the social, economical, environmental, spiritual and physical effects of industrialized food production...
A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) publishes a highly informative guide for consumers that explains what certifications and food labels are certified, which labels are unverified and have no legal definition or standards, and which...
Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows
Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows By Melanie Joy, PhD This seminal book looks at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to...
Farm Sanctuary – Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
Farm Sanctuary – Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food By Gene Baur When Gene Baur visited a stockyard raising animals for food, he was stunned at the stench, noise, filth, waste, and...
