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Forbes and The Economist both declare 2019 the year of the vegan.

“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.… It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car.”

—Joseph Poore of the University of Oxford, lead researcher on ”Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers”

WaPo.

Atlantic.

Vice.

Vice.

NBC News.

Forbes.

Intercept.

Here.

MFA.

Really it was seeing these fish being killed when I was on a boat as a kid. I guess to stun them they were throwing them against the side of the boat. I just had a profound strong reaction. It felt like a real injustice. It wasn’t just me, it was my siblings, all of my siblings, except for the youngest, Summer, she wasn’t born. My mom was pregnant with her. I don’t know how to explain it. I think it made me distrustful, and angry, and frightened of humans, humanity. I just thought it was such a gross abuse of power in a way. I think that during that moment we knew that we were not going to eat meat anymore. We said to our parents, “Why didn’t you tell us?” It’s amazing. I remember my mom’s face, I remember her crying. She didn’t know how to answer. It became very obvious we weren’t going to eat meat anymore.

Vox.

Guardian.

Guardian.

Wired.