It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

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

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.