Americans love meat and consume more than 65 billion pounds every year. The choices we make in meat have enormous consequences, for good or for ill.

We can strengthen rural communities, we can support sustainable agriculture that is light on the land, or we can let industrial factories pollute streams, aquifers, and the air. We can promote ethical husbandry where animals are treated as respected sentient beings, or allow them to be kept their entire lives in caged prisons and treated as "production units." And we can eat meat free from antibiotics and artificial growth hormones, or we can ignore the overuse of antibiotics in feed and the breeding of antibiotic-resistant diseases.

Every time we eat meat, we have the opportunity to vote for improving our health, our country, and our quality of life.

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