Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea

by Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Shyon Baumann

North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms-violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation-the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values.

Using an immense, one-of-a-kind dataset, Happy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638332
• ISBN13: 9781503638334
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages