"What does it mean to care about something if you don't act on that care? Even if it makes things less convenient, even if it makes your meal less enjoyable--which is totally possible. But we make decisions all the time guided by our values that make our lives less convenient and less enjoyable. We do them because they're things that matter more to us than a momentary pleasure, momentary comfort. I don't know why food would be an exception."
"[S]ay no to factory farms always. Not sometimes, not most of the time, but always, which means eating vegetarian a lot of the time. I think this issue is frankly more important than our conversation about the environment, because it is the No. 1 cause of global warming . . . This conversation has to be totally mainstreamed. There has to be a consensus behind it that factory farming is bad and we're not going to support it and we're done with it. And it has to be unacceptable to pretend these problems don't exist or not to actively engage with them."
Moving away from the realm of quotes for a moment, here's where I settle: I'm going to try it for a week as a starting point. I'm going to say "No" to factory farmed meat this week, without negotiation and equivocation. Even if that means politely turing down food at someone's home, I'm going to try it. It's not an issue here at home, because we don't buy factory-farmed meat, but elsewhere . . . we'll see how it goes.
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