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Reading

“Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options”, by the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative, issued in 2006.
“Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America”, a report by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, released May 2008.
“The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat”, a report for The Compassion in World Farming Trust.

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. One of the best books I’ve read on animal rights. The chapter on scientific experimentation was devastatingly sad.
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights by Tom Regan. In this book, Regan argues the case for empty cages, not bigger cages.
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. This book really changed my life and I recommend it for veg*ns and omnivores alike. It really makes you think about where your food comes from – whether you continue to eat animal products or not. I know a lot of vegans and vegetarians don’t like this book because in sort of promotes “happy meat”, but it opened my eyes up to a lot that I hadn’t known before – and that knowledge eventually led me to veganism, so you never know!
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional Lives of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. I’m not going to lie–there is a good chance this book will make you cry, but I loved it anyway. You’ll learn so much about what farmed animals would be like if they were free to roam. After all the reading I’ve done, I still learned a lot in this book.

“All Hat, No Cattle“, written by Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund. In this article he talks about Proposition 2 in California, the confinement of animals on factory farms, and the horrible conditions workers are forced to endure.