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What people don't often think about are things such as the fact that pigs have the intelligence of the average 3-year-old child.
It's not so much about whether we're buying carcasses. It's about realizing just how much the animal suffered during the course of their short lives.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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