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Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
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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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Different Help Myself Remember Time
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
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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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Factory People Reality See Willing
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Family Food Herself Offering Terror Tree
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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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk

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