Livestock's Longer Shadow: Hope Lives in KindnessLivestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have little idea how eating animal based foods harm animals, our health and our planet. We want to believe the animals we eat do not suffer pain, injury, live good lives and eating them is a trade off for the care we afford them. We accept the illnesses we suffer are simply a consequence of getting old. We want to believe our