“Linus was a calf born to a dairy cow, owned by a small-scale farmer who ordered him killed when he saw he was male. Males, after all, are useless in an industry that exploits the female reproductive system. Luckily, a compassionate individual intervened, and Linus lives safely at Farm...

“Once a human makes a connection with non-human animals, it’s nearly impossible to kill them. It’s why those in the slaughter industry do everything they can to disconnect themselves from the terrified animals whose lives they end. If every one of us could see the individuals we pay to...

“I simply do not believe that our desire for entertainment, fashion, and gustatory pleasure is worth compromising our own ethics and sacrificing the lives of billions of animals. Like us, their bodies are their own; they’re not ours to use. Like us, their babies are their own; they’re not...

“When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can’t see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn’t make violence disappear; it...

I have yet to meet a non-vegan who doesn’t care about the treatment of animals bred and killed for human consumption. Even people who eat animal-based meat, aware on some level that the experience is unpleasant for the animals, will tell you they object to unnecessary abuse. Nobody wants...