It takes no more time to be a vegetarian than to eat animal flesh. Animal Liberation author Peter Singer says it best: “There is nothing to stop those who devote their time and energy to human problems from joining the boycott of the products of agribusiness cruelty. One odd thing that animal-rights activists are often asked is why they don’t help humans before animals. Most interesting to me, reading it for the first time as a vegan, is how much of an animal-rights book it is. It wasn’t surprising to see what had been left out of the original book (though the censored version was horrific enough) and I’m glad I had the chance to read the book in its entirety, as it was meant to be read. I recently revisited Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle-the original edition published by a socialist newspaper in 1905, not the shorter version published by Doubleday, Page (after Macmillan ultimately rejected it) in 1906.
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