A few years ago, I read Fast Food Nation and it forever changed how I looked at my place in the food chain. That awakening led me—eventually, and with prodding from my vegan wife—to the point where I am now vegetarian. That in no way makes me a perfect food consumer, but I feel like it helps me have a little less impact than I would if I still ate meat. I grew up in the U.S., but I now live in New Zealand. Here there is more popular aversion to genetically engineered foods. Also, I could be wrong, but factory farms here seem a lot less industrial than ones in the States.