Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it’s not the choice I’m imposing on anybody else.
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
It’s a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you’re not allowed to see where something comes from, don’t put it in your mouth.
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.
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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.
Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.
She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing “Hey Jude.” It was true, I didn’t want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It’s just that I didn’t know how.
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.