Jonathan Safran Foer on eating animals and a cheeseburger on 4th of July

If you're in the market for New Years resolutions, here's one: cut back on eating meat.

Ninety-nine percent of the meat we eat comes from factory farms. Industrial livestock production is worse for the planet than the pollution from all transportation combined.

What's more, our beloved chicken and turkey are mutating on account of this heavy production. Inside the factory farms, turkeys have lost the ability to reproduce and most chickens can't live past 40 days, and if they do their bones break. (Plus, a North Carolina factory farm gave the world swine flu)