This issue questions how health professionals should respond to ethical challenges that meat consumption creates in their practices, professions, and organizations.

When physicians fail to model behaviors they advocate for others, trust is eroded. 

The AMA Code and Principles provide guidance on how to educate and counsel patients about meat consumption and about their advocacy roles in reducing meat production.

Perpetration-induced traumatic stress should be understood as present, not just posttraumatic, stress disorder because retraumatization is part of slaughterhouse workers’ jobs.

Many people ask Temple Grandin, “Do cattle and other animals know they are walking up a chute that will lead to their death?”

Risks posed by concentrated animal feeding operations to human health demand attention of clinicians and those who teach them.

Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or illnesses.

There are 5 things every clinician should know about why environmental threats matter to human and nonhuman animals’ health.

This comic considers how patients work to use the right vocabulary to help their physicians help them.

Misinformation is an urgent new problem, so health professions communities need solutions as much as they need to be wary of ethical pitfalls of rushed interventions.