"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."

Morality, Ethics, Animals, Compassion, Truth

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"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."

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"Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down."

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"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."

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"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."

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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

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"Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north."

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"For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history."

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