The meat industry not only inflicts untold misery on billions of sentient beings but is also one of the chief causes of global warming, one of the main consumers of antibiotics and poison, and one of the foremost polluters of air, land, and water.
Oxford historian Yuval Harari Noah believes if we really understand how an action causes unnecessary suffering to ourselves or to others, we’ll naturally abstain from it. His book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century offers a range of mind-expanding observations: