Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

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.