"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian." —Paul McCartney Every now and again, a special book comes along dealing with the ways in which so-called farm animals are mistreated ...

You almost can’t ignore it. Everywhere you look, you see baby bunnies, fluffy chicks and tiny ducks. The neighbor has new kittens at her house. You know a farmer who’s welcoming lambs into his barn, ...

As an avid reader, few books have made me stare at the wall and contemplate what I had just read. But one short read of about 10 chapters — George Orwell’s 1945 classic Animal Farm, with its pig on ...