Read More About Animal Consciousness, Intelligence, and Emotion

Provided to us by ‘Food with Mark Bittman’ guest, anthropologist Barbara King

In case you missed it, the episode a month or so ago with anthropologist Barbara King (@bjkingape on Twitter) and reducetarian Brian Kateman on Food with Mark Bittman addressed whether veganism is an impossible standard. In that episode, she said, “There’s a real discrepancy between people just loving to hear about what elephants are doing, and not being so open to hear about the animals on their plate having a good day or a bad day or being really smart or really thinking. And that’s what I’m working to change, to bring forward what science is telling us about these animals.”

Since then, Barbara has sent us some suggested reading related to animal consciousness, intelligence, and emotion — and we’re passing it along to you.

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