Sign in with Facebook
in order to divert the People’s attention from retrograde Christian rituals, the authorities had decreed that all baptisms, weddings and funerals must be over by 8.30.
“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
―
―
“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
― The Imperfectionists
― The Imperfectionists
“This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it gets. And that’s bad enough, surely.”
― The Imperfectionists
― The Imperfectionists
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
Stefania’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stefania’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
228 books
|
8 friends
470 books
|
31 friends
41 books
|
71 friends
185 books
|
26 friends
21 books
|
89 friends
1 book
|
54 friends
0 books
|
24 friends
3 books
|
35 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Stefania
Lists liked by Stefania
