Meet Your Meat. Project Syndicate of The Ethics of Eating, by Peter Singer. Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.
Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the ethics of the way meat and eggs are produced. The consumption of veal has fallen sharply since it became widely known that to produce "white" -- actually pale pink -- veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around. In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef's image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep. Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects? Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism (Philosophy Bites Podcast)