The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.