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.

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.

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?

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

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