One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.