A single person going vegan makes a huge impact on the amount of greenhouse gases that go into the environment, so even if you’re one of those “what good can one person do” people, you can actually do a lot!

Sue Coe grew up in postwar England with a slaughterhouse nearby and a small pig farm with sheds behind their house. “My mother and I watched a pig escape from a slaughterhouse. My whole childhood was listening to the pigs scream.”

“What would cause an entire society of people to leave their thinking caps at the door – and not even realize they’re doing so?” Harvard-educated UMass Boston psychology and sociology professor Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. explores this question in her book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism. 

Is it really possible to give thanks for the blessing of the harvest without consuming a dead bird with dried bread stuffed into his or her anal cavity? Let’s find out.