Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe
Interpretation
This quote highlights the emotional depth of animals and our often overlooked connection to their suffering when consuming meat.
Moby's quote reflects on the moral implications of our dietary choices, emphasizing that while we may intellectually separate ourselves from animals, they possess emotions akin to our own, capable of joy and suffering. He urges the reader to confront the uncomfortable reality that every consumption of meat, such as a hamburger, is connected to the death of an animal, challenging us to reconsider our relationship with these sentient beings.
In practice
During a speech on animal rights, I quoted Moby to illustrate the emotional lives of animals.
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
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