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Jim Mason is an author and attorney who focuses on human/animal concerns. His latest book, co-authored with Princeton professor and ethicist Peter Singer, is The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Rodale Press, 2006). The authors trace the foods eaten by three American families back to their sources and explore the ethical questions that arise along the way. The book discusses factory farming and alternatives, fair trade, buying local, organic farming, commercial fishing, and other food matters of concern to consumers today.
Mason is author of An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature (Lantern Books, rev. ed. 2021) and co-author with Peter Singer of Animal Factories (Crown, 1980; rev. ed. 1990). He is a contributor to In Defence of Animals (Blackwell’s, 2005), edited by Peter Singer, and to A Cultural History of Animals. Vol. 1, In Antiquity, edited by Linda Kalof. (Oxford: Berg, 2011).
His writings have appeared in Audubon, The New York Times, New Scientist, Newsday, Country Journal, Orion Nature Quarterly, and other publications.
On the show we discuss politics, animal rights, the climate crisis and his books. 26 September 2023 – MC
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