#vega

Vegas?" I asked. His brow furrowed, unsure of where I was headed. "Yeah?" "Have you thought about going back?" His eyebrows shot up. "I don't think that's a good idea for me." "What if we just went for a night?" He looked around the dark room, confused. "A night?" "Marry me," I said without hesitation. I was surprised at how quickly and easily the words came. His mouth spread into a broad smile. "When?" I shrugged. "We can book a flight tomorrow. It's spring break. I dont't have anything going on tomorrow, do you?" "I'm callin' your bluff," he said, watching my reaction closely as he was connected. "I need two tickets to vegas, please. Tomorrow. Hmmmm...," he looked at me, waiting for me to change my mind. "Two days, round trip. Whatever you have. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis #vegas #beauty

The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined. ↗

— Gene Baur

#farm-sanctuary #veganism #change

Wellness Salute! ↗

— SupaNova Slom

#exercise #fitness #health #holistic #military

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people! ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#food #humans #life #speciesism #starving

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#animals #death #duck #ducks #eating

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture. ↗

— Will Tuttle

#veganism #diet

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. ↗

— Kris Carr

#diet

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#cooking #cuisine #diet #food #foods

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration? ↗

— Jack Norris

#kind #life #philosophy #vegan #vegetarian

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas #dreams