Every meal is a moral act. Every bite carries a cost measured in carbon, in suffering, in land and water and life. We pretend otherwise because the alternative is to sit with the math and let it change us. On the Ethics of Killing: The Moral Math of Eating strips away the comfortable distance between the eater and the eaten. Blake Binford walks readers from the fluorescent aisles of the grocery store to the predawn stillness of a deer blind, from the industrial kill floor to the act of cleaning... [Read More...]