Last month at the Animal Rights Conference in Los Angeles, we caught up with Author Will Tuttle (The World Peace Diet), who spoke with us about his work and his feelings about Earthlings.

"What Earthlingsdoes, the great gift it gives our culture, is that it makes us aware of what's behind the curtain of our denial. It may be painful, we may be resistant, we may not want to see it, we don’t want to know, but once we do, then we have the power to transform our consciousness. We can begin to behave in new ways, go to a higher level where we’re not actually causing that kind of misery.”

Dr. Tuttle has also just written a fascinating piece on the cultural history of the movement for animal rights on the blog Crazy Sexy Life. Read part one here and part two here. 

"It’s important to understand that owning animals as property to be killed and eaten is the hidden and defining core of our culture, and that all of us were, and are, routinely indoctrinated into the mentality of domination, exclusion, reductionism, elitism, and disconnectedness required by the food practices of this culture."

Check out the video (and listen for how he’s shown Earthlings in Lawrence, Kansas):