Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. Turkeys have been so genetically modified they are incapable of natural reproduction. To acknowledge that these things matter is not sentimental. It is a confrontation with the facts about animals and ourselves. We know these things matter.
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I won’t measure my success as a parent by whether my children share my values, but by whether they act according to their own.
--Jonathan Safran Foer
in THIS ARTICLE, which was given to me by Shlomy on why and how he gave up meat.
Two great words of wisdom.
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