“The vast majority of people eat animal products not because of how they’re produced, but in spite of it.”

— Jacy Reese

The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System (2018)

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American social scientist 1992

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