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I Hate The Word "inevitable" Because I Feel Like Things Don't Have To Be The Way They Are.

When You Go Into A Fast Food Restaurant, You May Just Think About How Good Your Meal Tastes While You're Eating It. But You're Not Thinking About All The Consequences That Come From That One Purchase - The Consequences For Your Body, The Consequences For Supporting This Company And How It's Treating It Workers, All The Way Back To The Farm Where The Potatoes Were Grown, Or The Ranch Where The Cattle Were Raised.

I've Written About Illegal Immigrants In The United States; I Spent A Year Following Migrant Farm Workers As They Were Harvesting. I've Written About Our Criminal Justice System, And How It Treats The Victims Of Crime. I've Been Working For Years Now On A Book About Prisons In America, And I've Been Going Into Prisons And Traveling Around The Country And Seeing What's Going On.

So For Everything I Do, I'm Very Clear About What I'm Doing, And I Tell People What It's About. They Get A Sense Of What I'm Thinking. I Don't Let People Think I'm Going To Write Something In Praise In The Meatpacking Industry, And Then They Read It And It's Actually Attacking The Meatpacking Industry.

The Industry Doesn't Want You To Know The Truth About What You're Eating, Because If You Knew, You Might Not Want To Eat It.