In terms of philosophy, Animal Liberation by Singer is one of the most well-cited in terms of opening our eyes to how we view animals and their pain and suffering, even if it's a bit old. Quite a dense read though.

But for a marxist lens, some of the sidebar has really good references. In particular I'd recommend Aph Ko's book. In terms of dietary change, I like veganricha.com for indian recipes (though she has some non-indian ones as well)!

There's a bunch resources in the sidebar here that might be able to help you out. There's actually some more things I'd like to add to it, but I can't anymore. Anything you're looking for in particular?

Sometimes when we’re feeling discouraged, we’ll go and re-watch one of these docs to light that fire under us again

Shit. That's a little bit fucked. When I was more active in the activist scene and was on twitter and facebook I was subscribed to a whole bunch of activists I knew. My timeline looked like something from a horror movie, 60% of it was blood, gore and suffering, like a window straight to the depths of hell...

We do have to avoid criticizing the actual workers that do the slaughtering, they're often undocumented immigrants and only do the work because they can find nothing else. They're exploited as well, often at threat of deportation by the factory farm company.

I knew it was bad. I never, ever could’ve imagined how horrific it is to see.

Also (since I already responded to this)

"If it's good enough for your stomach, it's good enough for your eyes." That's an adage activists use sometimes to convince carnists to watch documentaries or footage like this.

You'll see some users here get very upset when we refer to meat as a tortured corpse, even hyperbolically accusing vegans of emotional abuse for using that language. But it's important to eschew euphemisms and abstractions. We need to stop putting carnist fragility over the literal trillions of lives we take every year.

and then every fucking human element in the process is a complete fucking sadist.

They have to be. There's not a lot of other ways to cope. Here's more info on slaughterhouse workers:

https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slaughterhouse-workers/

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Good call

Oh man, I've never watched Dominion, but I did watch Lucent, which is a full documentary just about pigs in Australia, going over their entire life from birth to death. It's so long, it's almost boring, like the monotony of a horror that just goes on and on, and things just never get better :(

I don't think the images will or should be permanently out of our minds, personally. They're often a huge part of what breaks the walls that our brains put up to defend our habits. Of course, we learn to deal with them in our own ways. I'm not constantly thinking about the grisly consequences of treating animals as commodities. But when I do, it usually lights a fire in me.

After having already sat through the treatment of dogs, cats, cows, pigs, and chickens, the footage of circus animals and the whaling industry in Earthlings broke me. Far from a happy moment, but it was vitally important, and I don't ever want to forget what I felt then. Not until every cage is empty, at least.