June 2010
May 2010
“It’s crazy that the idea of animal rights seems crazy to anyone. We live in a world in which its conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal”
—Jonathan Safran Foer in Eating Animals (via courtneytothemax)
“This isn’t animal experimentation, where you can imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, its crazy. Why doesn’t a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it? It’s easy to dismiss that question but hard to respond to it. And how would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer in Eating Animals (via courtneytothemax)
“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity- a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history- but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”
i wish you were mine.
I miss my best friend.
“My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘LORD, I am coming.’”
—Psalms 27:8 (via taylorcthomas)
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”
—Reba McEntire (via laurenleebolek)
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
—Oscar Wilde (via laurenleebolek)
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via laurenleebolek)
