Itness
"One of the advantages of being a reasonable creature is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Once a friend came to visit and said, looking out on the soothing view: "And it would have to be a white horse; the very image of freedom." And I thought, yes, the animals are forced to become for us merely "images" of what they once so beautifully expressed. And we are used to drinking milk from containers showing "contented" cows, whose real lives we want to hear nothing about, eating eggs and drumsticks from "happy" hens, and munching hamburgers advertised by bulls of integrity who seem to command their fate.
As we talked of Freedom and Justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating Misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out."
-Alice Walker: Am I blue?
- Benjamin Franklin
"Once a friend came to visit and said, looking out on the soothing view: "And it would have to be a white horse; the very image of freedom." And I thought, yes, the animals are forced to become for us merely "images" of what they once so beautifully expressed. And we are used to drinking milk from containers showing "contented" cows, whose real lives we want to hear nothing about, eating eggs and drumsticks from "happy" hens, and munching hamburgers advertised by bulls of integrity who seem to command their fate.
As we talked of Freedom and Justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating Misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out."
-Alice Walker: Am I blue?