Personal narrative is essential for giving critical theories depth and nuance, especially theories focused on social justice and equality. Without personal narratives the theory can easily become stagnant, inadvertently upholding harmful dominant discourses. bell hooks, a prolific voice in feminist, African American, and gender studies exposes the failure of early feminist theory to include women of color’s voices, and how that failure weakens the theory itself. Ruth L. Ozeki’s novel, My Year of Meats, works to fight the oppression of women, as well as of animals used for meat. Unfortunately, the first-person narrative of the main protagonist, Jane, undermines, ignores, or distorts the narratives of the poor African American women, sex industry workers, low-level meat industry workers, and animals lower on the meat hierarchy in the novel. When these voices are left out of novels and critiques of meat-eating, feminist-vegetarian theory as defined in Carol J. Adams’ book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, is weakened. In my paper I explore the ways in which these voices and narratives are either truncated, ignored, or distorted, and the potential impact this has on individuals, as well as the large group of readers this novel was intended for.