The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more...

manly” emotions as patriotism, pride, conquest, and mastery are encouraged.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually ‘decided’ what experiences count and even exist in the world. The language of Western science–the reigning construct of male hegemony–precludes the ability...