Author: Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

The best-selling author of When Elephants Weep explores our relationship with the animals we call food. What does eating animals do to our land, waters, and climate? What are the effects of cruel farming practices on animals and humans? How does the health of animals affect our own, and the planet's? As a psychoanalyst, Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our fork and each culture's distinctions between the animals considered food and those that are forbidden. 256 pp.