The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhen I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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