Greystone

In this hybrid of investigative journalism and memoir, Marissa Landrigan charts her journey to find ethical ways to eat.

Here's a helpful review: "From New York to Montana, California to Ghana, Iowa to Kansas, Marissa Landrigan writes about how the places she's lived and the person she was in those places shaped her understanding of the food system, social justice, and ultimately, mortality. The book opens with Marissa looking at a steer's head in a slaughterhouse but it's not only meat and death that Landrigan is trying to look at bravely and honestly but herself and the impact her choices make on the people around her and the ecological communities she inhabits. As a hunter she met in Montana said, 'We all kill a little, the least you can do is look at it.' I read this book as Landrigan's long hard look at food, death, privilege, choice, and ecology. I loved this book for its courage, its reflection, its vulnerability, and its refusal to provide simple or prescriptive answers to the the problems with the food system and the choices we have to make about what and how we eat."

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