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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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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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’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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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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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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