We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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My 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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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