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14. Mason, p. 137.
15. Leonardo da Vinci, Notes, cited in Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Souls Like
Ourselves (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 62.
16. Joanne Stepaniak, Being Vegan (Los Angeles: Lowell House, 2000), p. 3.
Chapter 3—The Nature of Intelligence
1. See, for example, John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on: The Family (Deerfield Beach, FL:
Health Communications, 1988, 1996).
2. Charles Fillmore, “Vegetarianism,” Unity Magazine, June 1915.
3. Charles Fillmore, “The Vegetarian,” Unity Magazine, May 1920.
4. Charles Fillmore, “The Unity Vegetarian Inn” (Unity Village, MO).
5. Keith Akers, The Lost Religion of Jesus (New York: Lantern Books, 2000), p. 157.
6. Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature (New York: Bantam, 1979), p. 12.
7. For a discussion of some of the unexplained dimensions of intelligence in animals,
see Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999)
and also his Seven Experiments That Would Change the World (New York: Inner
Traditions, 2002), as well as Jean Houston, Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to
Our Inner Life (Makawao, HI: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2002). These are only a
small sampling of the books addressing this theme.
8. Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life
of Boys (New York: Ballantine, 1999), p. 174.
9. Rainforest Alliance Newsletter, September 2001, p. 1.
10. Greg Critser, Fat Land (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), p. 171.
11. Ronald Goodman, Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma (Boston: Vanguard
Publications, 1997).
12. Paul M. Fleiss, “Protect Your Uncircumcised Son: Expert Medical Advice for
Parents,” Mothering, November–December 2000, p. 44.
13. John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Save Your Life and the
World (Berkeley: Conari Press, 2001), p. 48.
14. John Robbins, Diet for a New America (Walpole, NH: StillPoint, 1987), p. 330.
15. The United States, for example, has one of the highest per capita rates of animal
food consumption in the world and also has the highest incarceration rate. With
only four percent of the world’s population, the U.S. has twenty-five percent of the
world’s prisoners; the country with the most animal prisoners also has the most
human prisoners.
16. Amnesty International, Torture Worldwide: An Affront to Human Dignity (New
York: Amnesty International, 2000), p. 2. See also www.amnestyusa.org.
17. Ibid., pp. 112–113.
18. Jim Mason, “Inside a Turkey Breeding Factory: Of Rape and Pillage,” Farm
Sanctuary News, Fall 1997, pp. 5–7.
19. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization, 2003 (Washington DC:
September 2004). See R.A.I.N.N. (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network),
www.rainn.org/statistics.html. In 2003 there were 198,500 victims of rape or sexual
assault (one every roughly two minutes), and 87,000 victims of completed rapes
(one every six minutes).
20. Michael Greger, “SARS: Another Deadly Virus from the Meat Industry,” VegNews
May–June, 2003, p. 10.
Chapter 4—Inheriting Our Food Choices
1. Joseph Mercola and Rachael Droege, “Why Junk Food Is so Tempting, and How to
Beat Your Temptation,” Mercola-com e-newsletter, Issue 516, March 17, 2004.