A conversation with SENTIENTISM: Jim Mason is a lawyer, journalist, and animal rights activist. He was introduced to philosopher Peter Singer in 1974. Their book Animal Factories was first published in 1980 and revised in 1990. It provides a critical review and photographic documentation of factory farming practices in North America.

Jim’s book, An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature looks at the historical and cultural roots of the Western belief in God-given dominion over the living world. Jim was inducted into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2001.

In Sentientist Conversations, we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” and “who matters?” Sentientism is “evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.”