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.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.