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Any major transformation in human history begins with recognizing that something we have been doing all along, that we have considered as normal, is actually immoral. Our current ecological and social circumstances call for such a major transformation. This book makes the case that speciesism - the assertion of superiority of a single species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, the "wise, wise" Hominid, over the millions of other species on planet Earth - and discrimination, exploitation and oppression of animals and other species on the basis of that false assertion is immoral. It contains a variety of scholarly contributions from religious, spiritual, environmental and social perspectives that speciesism and its most common manifestation, animal agriculture, need to be buried in the trash heap of history, along with colonialism, racism, ableism, patriarchy, casteism and other such discredited false supremacist ideologies. The time to do it is NOW.