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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it’s perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don’t do it because they think all the ways in which it’s done are wrong.
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It’s so hard to express yourself.? I understand this.? I want to express myself.? The same is true for me.? I’m looking for my voice.? It’s in your mouth.? I want to do something I’m not ashamed of.? Something you are proud of, yes?? Not even. I just don’t want to be ashamed.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about “eating animals”, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It’s a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.
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I wanted to cry but I didn’t, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
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We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames.
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When you’re a dad, there’s no one above you. If I don’t do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn’t happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.
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