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“be plant-based should not just mean rejecting industrial agriculture; it should encompass supporting local agriculture that allows for biodiversity and dignified lives for farmers.”
― 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

“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

“Eugenio María de Hostos, the great Puerto Rican educator, summed it up as follows: “How sad and overwhelming and shameful it is to see [Puerto Rico] go from owner to owner without ever having been her own master, and to see her pass from sovereignty to sovereignty without ever ruling herself.”
― Nelson A. Denis, War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony