Mark Browning, 2007.
Mark Browning
A canadian singer/songwriter and musician. He is the
lead singer and plays guitar for the band Ox, a Canadian alternative
country indie band, which he founded. The band is based in Sudbury,
where Mark Browning was born. He is also the founder and owner of
Sudbury record store and recording studio Cosmic Dave's. Before
founding Ox, he recorded the 2001 albums Years of Sadness
Quotes by Mark Browning:
| "I am a vegan. I chose to change my lifestyle two years ago when I learned what a toll meat-eating takes on our environment, not to mention the unimaginable cruelty that is routine within the factory farming industry." |
| "As the saying goes, "you are what you eat," and to some degree, I believe that what we eat defines who we are." |
| "I became vegetarian a couple of years ago and vegan in the last six month [2010]. I did a lot of reading. Once you know something, it's hard to un-know it and to just pretend that what you're eating is okay. It really was impossible at that point. I'd grown up as a really big meat eater. Once you find out, you have to make the change. That's what happened to me." |
"I've read a few [books].
Eating Animals
is one.
Stuffed and Starved
is an amazing book that I read. It's more about the world wide
agricultural system and what it's doing, not just to animals, to
the environment, but to farmers and people in developing
countries who are taken off their land to grow food that they
can't afford to even have themselves. That was a great book.
Skinny Bitch ,
I read that on a plane and I just ate it up." |
| "I've always been an environmentalist, but I'd never thought of the food industry as having an environmental impact. And it was really eye-opening for me to discover that. I couldn't believe that I never thought of it before." |
Quotes are from his 2010 Letter to the Editor of Northern Life.ca and his 2010 Calgary Folk Fest Interview.
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