Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: vegetarianism animal-rights
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: vegetarianism food non-fiction documentary food-safety
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: animals vegetarianism vegetarian
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.
Douglas AdamsTag: humor vegetarianism chicken ethics vegetarian
I was eating a steak at a local restaurant last night, when a random woman said: "Y'know, you'd be much better off being a vegetarian." "Are you crazy?" I said, "The cow was a vegetarian and look what happened to it!
Quentin R. BufogleTag: humor vegetarianism
What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in the first place. People who had just seen their neighbors swept away would tell the reporters that they knew a judgment had been coming, because the Christians had used alcohol and meat at Christmas or because ... well, yet again you can fill in the blanks for yourself. It was interesting, though, to notice that the Buddhists were often the worst. Contentedly patting an image of the chubby lord on her fencepost, a woman told the New York Times that those who were not similarly protected had been erased, while her house was still standing. There were enough such comments, almost identically phrased, to make it seem certain that the Buddhist authorities had been promulgating this consoling and insane and nasty view. That would not surprise me.
Christopher HitchensTag: buddhism vegetarianism christianity religion atheism christmas evolution alcohol earthquakes human-race natural-disasters 2004-earthquake-and-tsunami christian-vegetarianism christianity-and-alcohol sri-lanka the-new-york-times tsunami
It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.
Paul BruntonTag: vegetarianism ethics nonviolence
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
Gabriel García MárquezTag: vegetarianism humorous
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: vegetarianism food
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: animals vegetarianism chicken factory-farms
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