The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

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.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you