Animal Rights

A significant force for dietary change in North America has been the animal rights movement. It does not take much imagination to realize that if animals had rights they would invoke those rights in a court of law to prevent humans from turning them into pâté de foie gras, veal, steak, bacon, crabcakes, buffalo wings, lamb chops, filets of sole, and so on. The corollary of the animal rights movement is the spread of ethical vegetarianism, which among younger generations of Americans is proceeding apace.