When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.