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Let us think together about the food we eat. How do the food choices we make affect not just ourselves, but the wellbeing of others—others nearby, others halfway around the world, and others in generations yet to come? Are we doing violence to others because of the ways we eat? We are
learning more and more about the environmental impacts of ways that we, as humans, have chosen to feed oursel ves. Like it or not, the scientific evidence continues to mount that animal agriculture is placing tremendous stress on our rather fragile planet. Raising animals on an industrial scale has all sorts of negative consequences. There are serious environmental impacts on our water, our air, our land, our climate, and on public health.

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Every year as the MLK holiday weekend approaches I begin to feel a bit nauseated—not because of Dr. King himself, but because of the way our culture has tried to transform his memory into something that will make it more palatable to white sensibilities. I have a great deal of respect for the real Dr. King, which is why I find it so offensive that his message seems to become more diluted each year. Way too much attention is paid to his famous March on Washington speech of August 28, 1963, while the larger body of his work gets overlooked. Indeed, even within the analysis of that one speech, there is too much emphasis on the easiest to swallow, least offensive parts of the oration—specifically, the “I HAVE A DREAM” sequence. That sequence about the dream was tacked onto the end of his speech in an impromptu way. It was not even a part of his prepared text. It is highly unlikely that he wanted the “I have a dream” addendum to be the main takeaway from his speech that day. If one looks at the whole body of MLK’s work a very different picture emerges.