Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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