Rosa K

“Flavor was and is secondary to symbolism when it comes to eating meat or rejecting it.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“In contrast, black nationalist eaters saw their food practices as an aspect of nation-building. They wanted to create a black nation that operated in lockstep, unified by ideological and cultural goals. Black culinary radicals used ideas about food as a means to opt out of white U.S. culture and into a black cultural nation.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“And there are those companies that—though well-intentioned—want to mold veganism and vegetarianism into capitalism’s image rather than use it to end oppression in all forms.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“That is why the idea of the “plant-based diet”—whether vegan, vegetarian, or flexible—needs to be reinvigorated and understood as a political stance that rejects efficient but profit-driven industrialized agriculture as much as it abhors the slaughter of confined animals.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating