A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds per person.

Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

I'm memorable, it's true.

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.