“Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?”
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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
