Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSongs are as sad as the listener.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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