"[4][7][a] Adams recalls discovering the dead body of her family pony that was killed in a hunting accident, then eating a hamburger that night.

During the past five years Adams has been very involved in helping to create this innovative urban development spearheaded by The Stewpot in Dallas, Texas.

[12] Adams is one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the book Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) by Mark Hawthorne.

An important theory formulated in the book is the absent referent, which she uses to explain the fact that people keep eating meat, and is also behind the objectification of women in pornography.

The male connotations associated with meat eating, not only highlights species inequality, but also defines distinct gender roles.

"[14] Adams proclaims that our culture has become preoccupied with reducing non-human animals to a source of consumption, a fragmentation of their individual species.

[14] In Adam's Animals and Women Feminist Theoretical Explorations, she argues that the social context behind female oppression and sexual violence has a direct tie to the way humans mistreat other species.

This sense of entitlement over animals translates into human relations and men begin to label women as inferior as well "available for abuse.

[15]: 15  Given current speciesism, individuals use non-human animals for their production, i.e. cows for milk, hens for eggs, or female dog to breed more puppies.

The idea of consumption plays a significant role in a culture that compare women to a product, something that's not only attainable, but a consumable person.

Adams juxtaposes commonly unnoticed advertisements in the local grocery store to sexist and misogynistic images of women.

Adams argues that modern culture idealizes the white male figure and demonstrates that he represents an advanced civilized society.

The underlying premise remains the same; current culture has created a desire for consumption from non-human animals, genders, and races.

She found that a patriarchal ethics "naturalizes and normalizes violence...and perpetuates human exceptionalism that permits the oppression of other beings".

[18] Fighting on the non-dominant side of things through her activism allowed her to return to her book-writing with a deeper level of understanding sufficient to know what was going on.

In her chapter, "What Came Before the Sexual Politics of Meat" in the book Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory, Adams explains that she and her husband were activists in the 1970s against racism.

Her husband, the local minister was receiving inflammatory letters from his congregation and Adams fought with inner self between doing as much as she can, and stopping where the situation became dangerous.