Editing Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (section)

== Later work ==
Since the early 1990s, Masson has written a number of books on the emotional life of animals, one of which, ''When Elephants Weep'', has been translated into 20 languages. He has explained this radical change in the subject of his writings as follows:

{{blockquote|I'd written a whole series of books about [[psychiatry]], and nobody bought them. Nobody liked them. Nobody. Psychiatrists hated them, and they were much too abstruse for the general public. It was very hard to make a living, and I thought, ''As long as I'm not making a living, I may as well write about something I really love: animals.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.powells.com/authors/masson.html |title=Interviews&nbsp;— Jeffrey Masson |publisher=Powells.com |access-date=2012-01-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629103347/http://www.powells.com/authors/masson.html |archive-date=2011-06-29 }}</ref>}}

In 2008, Masson became a Director of [[Voiceless, the animal protection institute]].  "We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved ... The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance".<ref>{{cite web|title=Voiceless, the animal protection institute|url=https://www.voiceless.org.au/who-we-are/jeffrey-masson}}</ref>

Masson also wrote a book about living in New Zealand, including an interview with Sir [[Edmund Hillary]].<ref>Masson, J., "A Conversation with a Great Ordinary Kiwi: Sir Edmund Hillary," chapter 7 in ''Slipping into Paradise''.</ref>