Michael Mansfield

The UK’s best – and best known – criminal defence and human rights barrister. Patron of Viva!.
 
I became vegetarian at the same time and for the same reasons as Hayley (Mills – click here). It is so obvious that meat production is about profit margins and creating a society in which life really doesn’t matter so long as there is a successful market place. Animals ride a conveyor belt of death on which they are electrocuted, executed and gutted while alive. This is massacre, this is genocide. It’s interesting that the corporations who abuse animals are often the same ones who exploit people. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many organisations like Viva!, who communicate with people extremely well and make us aware what’s important to our lives.