Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Satisfying the North American appetite has rendered animals nothing more than a commodity. The process of transforming animals into meat is among the most cruel, dangerous and unhealthy mistakes humankind has ever made.