#tar

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#eating #food #meat #vegans #vegetarianism

It’s amazing that a thin film of plastic wrap is enough to protect food against the aggression of hungry marauders. Or maybe the plastic cover doesn’t act as a shield, but rather the starving mob is staved off by one simple word: Leftovers. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#hunger #leftovers #marauders #mob #perception

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#acting #actually #character #i #insecurities

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. ↗

— Lierre Keith

#environment #environmentalism #radicalism #vegetarianism #food

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#act #comes #each #group #leader

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. ↗

— Ron Kind

#chance #following #future #give #iraqi

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so? ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#omnivore #vegetarian #food

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist. ↗

— Carole King

#dream #eric #eric clapton #guitarist

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. ↗

— Florence King

#about #already #being #jobs #like

I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#being #big #big mistake #company #did