We received this email from Houston's Feast restaurant.
We applaud their decision.

For more information about this issue visit www.FarmForward.com.

Statement from Feast:

"We at Feast wish you all a very happy new year and would like to announce that, with immediate effect, we will no longer be using ANY meat or meat product from factory farmed, intensively raised animals in our restaurant.

A full list of exactly where your dinner is coming from will be posted on the website and on the back of the menu.

We would love to drag as many of you all as possible along with us on this and let's see if we can't change a few things! We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks - thanks again for all your custom and support.
Cheers!

‘The industrialization—and brutalization—of animals in America is a relatively new phenomenon: no other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat.  Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent we would not long continue to raise, kill and eat animals the way we do. Tail-docking and sow crates and beak-clipping would disappear overnight - for who could stand the sight? Yes, meat would get more expensive. We'd probably eat less of it, too, but maybe when we did eat animals, we'd eat them with the consciousness, ceremony and respect they deserve.’

Michael Pollan – ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’

Feast
219 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77006
713-529-7788
www.feasthouston.com"