A lot of things contributed to my becoming a vegetarian and I gave up meat slowly. I stopped drinking milk just because I didn’t like it and then red meat because I couldn’t afford it. Then my printmaking professor at Pratt Institute introduced me to the idea of being a vegetarian. We talked about it a lot but he never preached at me. I think David is most responsible for how I choose to proselytize my beliefs and that is through actions. The last thing I stopped eating was fish, that was in 1991 after reading an article in the NY Times about King crab numbers being depleted by over harvesting. I stopped eating meat all together and began to research industrial harvesting of meat, poultry and fish. This was the beginning of my interest in sustainability and now the catalyst of this interest is in the news again. I am not asking the world to become vegetarians but I ask all you flesh eaters of the world to harvest your food in a sustainable way.

Think about what you eat.