Meat alternatives are tearing down the idea that eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary.Finding the best ways to do good.In 1989, the social psychologist Melanie Joy became a vegetarian almost by accident. She ate a hamburger contaminated with campylobacter and became so ill that she couldn’t stomach the idea of eating meat again. So she set about learning new ways to cook for a meatless diet, reading cookbooks and doing research.In the process, she started to learn about the suffering of non-human animals, the suffering of workers on factory farms, and the environmental toll...…Meat alternatives are tearing down the idea that eating animals is normal, natural, and necessary.Finding the best ways to do good.In 1989, the social psychologist Melanie Joy became a vegetarian almost by accident. She ate a hamburger contaminated with campylobacter and became so ill that she couldn’t stomach the idea of eating meat again. So she set about learning new ways to cook for a meatless diet, reading cookbooks and doing research.In the process, she started to learn about the suffering of non-human animals, the suffering of workers on factory farms, and the environmental toll...WW…

US chicken plants process 140 birds a minute. The Trump administration thinks that’s too slow.Finding the best ways to do good.Taking chickens and pigs from the highly concentrated farms where they live to supermarket shelves isn’t an easy process. The animals have to be processed at slaughterhouses where they’re killed and dismembered for their meat.And because chickens and pigs (and cows and lambs and turkeys … ) are living things whose shapes and sizes vary, cutting and pulling breast meat from chickens, for example, can’t be done with machines or robots. It has to be done by human...…US chicken plants process 140 birds a minute. The Trump administration thinks that’s too slow.Finding the best ways to do good.Taking chickens and pigs from the highly concentrated farms where they live to supermarket shelves isn’t an easy process. The animals have to be processed at slaughterhouses where they’re killed and dismembered for their meat.And because chickens and pigs (and cows and lambs and turkeys … ) are living things whose shapes and sizes vary, cutting and pulling breast meat from chickens, for example, can’t be done with machines or robots. It has to be done by human...WW…