APPLETON, WIS. — A leading authority on America’s food industry examines animal agriculture and the cruelities the industry doesn’t want the public to know in an address at Lawrence University.
Erik Marcus presents “Taking Misery Off the Menu” Monday October 30 at 8 p.m. in Science Hall , Room 102. The event is free and open to the public.
The author of the 2005 book “Meat Market: Animals, Ethics and Money,” Marcus will challenge the assurances issued by the animal agriculture industry that claim it has animal interests at heart and that farming practices are decent and humane. He will discuss what he calls “cruel farming practices” employed by the industry and expose the strategies the industry uses to hide “brutalities” from the public.
In addition to “Meat Market,” Marcus is the author of “Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating,” a 1997 book that passionately advocates the widespread adoption of a plant based diet on health, ethical and ecological grounds. Marcus also publishes Vegan.com, a website devoted to animal protection and the vegan lifestyle and is the host of “Erik’s Diner,” a podcast talk show about food and farmed animals.
Marcus’ appearance is sponsored by the LU Vegetarians and Vegans, a student organization that promotes campus awareness and understanding of the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle for moral, environmental, ethical and health reasons.
