Horse racing involves the slaughter of tens of thousands of horses every year, across the globe perhaps hundreds. The fact that people are completely unaware of this, and the other ethical issues surrounding horse racing, prompted me to write this piece for Animal Liberation Queenslands newsletter.
Such a situation, is dreadful. Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures - and by violating his own feelings, becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. But by the assertion that God ordained the slaughter of animals, and above all as a result of habit, people entirely lose their natural feeling.
— Leo Tolstoy
The Surprising Science on What Motivates Vegetarians, from the Breakfast Table to the Bedroom
Nick Cooney
If there were one book I would want people to read on how to make a vegan world it would be this one. Cooney takes an approach I think we could do with a lot more of in our movement. Using science and data he looks at what these tell...