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also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.
Garth Davis M.D. • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Such communal generosity might seem incompatible with the process of evolution, which invokes the imperative of individual survival. But we make a grave error if we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The conservationists who are merely organized function as specialists who have lost sight of basic connections.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Many of our greatest challenges – climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, soil erosion, water depletion, declining fish stocks, pollution, antibiotic resistance and diet-related disease – stem from our failure to value food.
Carolyn Steel • Sitopia
According to totalitarian agriculture, cows may live but wolves must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, chickens may live but foxes must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, wheat may live but chinch bugs must die. Anything we eat may live, but anything that eats our food must die—and not merely on an ad hoc basis. Our posture is no
... See moreDaniel Quinn • The Story of B (Ishmael Series Book 2)
Instead of eating plants and moving like predators, we move like plants and eat like predators.