But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.