ofRenata,mywife,whohadbecomeequallyconvincedthat
ourfriends wereright,Imightstillbeeating meat,though
with a guilty conscience.
The idea of writing a book arose from the enthusiastic
responsetomyreviewofAnimals,MenandMorals,edited
byStanleyand RoslindGodlovitchandJohnHarris,which
appearedintheNewYorkReviewofBooks(April5,1973).I
am grateful to the editors of the New York Review for
publishing this unsolicited discussion of a book on an
unfashionabletopic.Thereviewwould,however,neverhave
turnedintoabookwithouttheencouragementandassistance
of the following:
Eleanor Seiling,ofUnitedActionforAnimals,NewYork,
madeherorganization’suniquecollectionofdocuments on
experimental uses of animals available to me; and Alois
Acowitz’ssummaries oftheexperimenters’reportsenabled
metofindwhatIwantedinafractionofthetimethatwould
otherwise have been needed.
RichardRydergenerouslylentmematerialhehadgathered
for his own book,Victims of Science.
Joanne Bower, of the Farm and Food Society, London,
provided me with information on the conditions of farm
animals in Britain.
Kathleen Jannaway, of the Vegan Society of the United
Kingdom, helped me to locate reports on the nutritional
adequacy of plant foods.