Balancing Compassion and Meat-Eating: How the Brain Manages Empathy

The article explains how the brain suppresses empathy to reconcile loving animals with eating meat, highlighting psychological mechanisms like moral disengagement and cultural beliefs such as carnism. It discusses the environmental, health, and ethical impacts of meat consumption and offers practical steps to reduce meat intake while maintaining cultural and emotional connections to food, emphasizing that empathy can be strengthened over time.