A polemic for a 2020 vision. "The Meat Delusion" succeeds in destroying one of the most pervasive of society's lies - that we need to eat meat, that we have to eat meat, that we are made to eat meat. Through 10 chapters Richard tears apart the untruths that have permitted the animal farming industry to dominate society, at the cost of so many lives, human as well as non-human and at such devastating cost to the environment. Without the lies to support it, we understand that we have no need of any animal farming, and we can create a world that is based on respect for our fellow Earthlings, and create a society that is at last based upon the civilising principles of compassion, justice and love.