I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything. (p. 216) - Jonathan Safran Foer

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.