Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.

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.

If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive."She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.