Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?