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People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re...more

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Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it....more

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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do ...more

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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye da...more

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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers...more

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What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small ...more

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he...more

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Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers aro...more

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, fee...more

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As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace,...more

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We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at th...more

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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our susten...more

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to w...more

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Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things t...more