No Meat Required Quotes

“I feel … that decolonizing your lifestyle is literally just going back to your roots, asking a lot of questions and asking where your food came from as well,” she said.”
― 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

“was inspired by the naturopath Alvenia M. Fulton to believe in diet as part of civil rights activism, “believing that bad diets bolstered the forces of white”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Talking about what we eat cannot just be rooted in the political; by its very nature, eating is personal. This is why a delicate balance must be struck when we discuss ideas of ethical consumption in an unethical global food system that interacts with other systems of oppression, from white supremacy to patriarchy to capitalism.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating