David Kirby: 6 Baby Steps Toward a More Sustainable Animal Diet
The most common question I get about my new book Animal Factory , which comes out Tuesday, March 2, is, “Am I going to have to become a vegetarian after reading this?” My answer usually throws people off. “No,” I say, “You’re going to want to eat even MORE meat, eggs and dairy!” Then, as a bemused brow breaks over their face, I add: “But by that, I mean more that is raised humanely and sustainably, without harm to human health or the environment.” Most people I speak with inherently sense that their meat and dairy should be raised as “humanely and sustainably” as possible, but don’t really know what those terms mean. The whole new morality of shopping the supermarket meat aisle can seem so daunting, especially while trying to sort through the various “cage-free” “humane” and “organic” labels

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