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“Eating ethically is an effort, a constant attempt to make choices regarding the consumption of food and goods that treads as lightly on the planet as possible while doing the least harm to humans and nonhuman animals.”
― 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

“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

“and they are what I’ll be arguing against in this book. My response now is to say that our lives, our ways of eating, will have to change if those corporations are held to account for those emissions—and we don’t know when that might happen. We each have a personal role to play in making things a little easier on the planet.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating