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A review by clairegannondorf
Mercy for Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals by Nathan Runkle, Gene Stone
informative
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I went vegan for my health, as I had been battling an eating disorder for several years. When I went vegan, everything changed for me. It was like something clicked in my mind and body. I heard about this book after the author had been on The Chickpeeps Podcast. At the time I was definitely more focused on Veganism for health.
This book helped me make the connection to the animals and realize how sick and unethical factory agriculture is. I know that the world isn’t going to go vegan overnight, and you don’t have to be a vegan or an aspiring vegan to read this. You should read this book if you have any interest in ethical rights for living beings. If you want to know where your food is coming from- ya know, the ‘farm to table’ idea- this book will inform you of the amount of suffering that goes in to each meal with animal products on your table, especially if the animal product is coming from a factory farm.
One thing this book does really well is highlight the egg industry and how absolutely terrible it is. I get it, you want to eat eggs. If you are going to eat eggs after reading this book, AT LEAST make the switch to eggs that are raised from a friend with backyard chickens who have actual fresh air and a yard to roam in. The factory farming model for egg production is honestly worse than any other animal farming method, which is confusing right? Because it’s just the egg, not the actual chicken being killed. But with the events depicted in this book, witnessed by the author, the suffering these birds endure seems to be even worse than their demise. Fabulous book and a necessary read for anyone who eats animal products or doesn’t want to go back to eating animal products.
I do have to note that the organization- MERCY FOR ANIMALS- has apparently accepted monomial offers to promote cage free eggs, which baffles me because this book is adamantly fighting against cage free eggs, as ‘cage free’ doesn’t mean a thing when you still don’t have enough space in the barn to walk because of the amount of animals, along with stepping in bird feces 24/7.
This book helped me make the connection to the animals and realize how sick and unethical factory agriculture is. I know that the world isn’t going to go vegan overnight, and you don’t have to be a vegan or an aspiring vegan to read this. You should read this book if you have any interest in ethical rights for living beings. If you want to know where your food is coming from- ya know, the ‘farm to table’ idea- this book will inform you of the amount of suffering that goes in to each meal with animal products on your table, especially if the animal product is coming from a factory farm.
One thing this book does really well is highlight the egg industry and how absolutely terrible it is. I get it, you want to eat eggs. If you are going to eat eggs after reading this book, AT LEAST make the switch to eggs that are raised from a friend with backyard chickens who have actual fresh air and a yard to roam in. The factory farming model for egg production is honestly worse than any other animal farming method, which is confusing right? Because it’s just the egg, not the actual chicken being killed. But with the events depicted in this book, witnessed by the author, the suffering these birds endure seems to be even worse than their demise. Fabulous book and a necessary read for anyone who eats animal products or doesn’t want to go back to eating animal products.
I do have to note that the organization- MERCY FOR ANIMALS- has apparently accepted monomial offers to promote cage free eggs, which baffles me because this book is adamantly fighting against cage free eggs, as ‘cage free’ doesn’t mean a thing when you still don’t have enough space in the barn to walk because of the amount of animals, along with stepping in bird feces 24/7.