There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.