Summary: Matthieu Ricard is the author of: A Plea for the Animals: The Moral Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion. It is now my top recommendation for a book that is both comprehensive and based on solid research. The "book invites us to face up to something: in spite of the sense of wonder the animal kingdom inspires in us, we are responsible for an ongoing massacre of animals on a scale unequaled in the history of humankind. Every year, sixty billion land animals and a thousand billion martine animals are killed for our consumption."
