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"This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting-to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving."
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"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."
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"Relish what is good and expedient."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."
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"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
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"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
Leadership
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
Food
"Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)"
Science
"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
Change
"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."
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"It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease]."
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"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."
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