The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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What does it remember like?
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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