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

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.

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.

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

Each day is a little bit of history

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

Nobody wants to proclaim, 'I changed the world with my inferior products.'

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.