(He really meant vegan.)
On veganism: “I’ve been reading so much about climate change and just sitting with what it means to eat animals and animal products—the environmental cost of it, more than anything. It all came to a head when I read Jonathan’s book; he just laid out the facts so clearly. And I just sighed to myself, like, Oh, God, I’ve really got to do this. Am I going to be a person who acts, or am I going to be a person who doesn’t act?”
Aside from the grotesque framing of this as “an economic loss” rather than a loss of life, maybe it’s time to stop shipping live animals? Since, you know, typically 1-2% die in transit: “Usually they arrive every three weeks like clockwork,” she said. “And out of 100 birds you may have one or two that die in shipping.”
“Diseases originating from animals, called zoonoses, have “caused nearly every pandemic in human history” per TIME Magazine, yet that causal relation is largely relegated to scientific and activist discussions that don’t permeate the popular conversation. Widespread reluctance to examine the root cause of the pandemic is creating a disconnect in the prevailing discourse.”