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When Pigs Sing: The Emotional Lives of Farmed Animals

When Pigs Sing - The Emotional Lives of Farmed Animals, an online Project Animal Freedom event with author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

🐷🌙💭 Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about the emotional lives of farmed animals, featuring Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon!

During this live Q&A session, you will have the opportunity to:

  1. 🎙️ Speak with a best-selling American author who has published over 30 books

  2. 🧠 Gain valuable insight into the emotional lives of farmed animals through science, stories, and more

  3. 📖 Get a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at Jeffrey’s final book, covering everything from cults and Freud to the Holocaust and our treatment of nonhuman animals

Drawing on five years of firsthand observation on farms and at sanctuaries, Jeffrey makes the case that the animals we call “livestock” think, feel, and suffer, and that animals are happy only when free to live according to their own nature.

This community conversation is for you if you:

  • 💗 Care about the emotional wellbeing of animals

  • 🌱 Want to learn more about their rich inner lives and share this knowledge with others

  • 📚 Desire the opportunity to speak with a renowned author who covers animal issues

✨ ABOUT JEFFREY:

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a best-selling author, former psychoanalyst, and longtime advocate for animals. Born in Chicago in 1941, he earned his Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University, taught Sanskrit at the University of Toronto, and served as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, where his research into Freud’s unpublished papers led to his groundbreaking and controversial book The Assault on Truth.

Jeffrey later turned to writing about the emotional lives of animals, producing two New York Times bestsellers, When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love. His many other books include The Pig Who Sang to the Moon and The Face on Your Plate, his case for vegan living. A vegan and animal rights advocate, Jeffrey has spent decades showing the world that animals think, feel, and deserve to live safe, happy, and free.

Whether you come prepared with questions or simply tune in to the conversation, Jeffrey is excited to speak with you. Don’t miss out!

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