Valter Liblik

“You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”
― Maya Angelou

“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?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“The favourite phrase, “our four-footed friends,” seems rather an anachronism in the face of our acknowledged relations to them as eater and eaten, for the phrase indicates a mutual pact of friendship, which, however well sustained by them, is dishonoured by man; for even cannibals, we are told, sink no lower than to eat their foes.”
― M.R.L. Sharpe, The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six Hundred Recipes for Meatless Dishes

“As Anne-Marie Slaughter, head of the New America Foundation, warns, progress will be slow if we continue to define the "care problem" as "women's problem.”
― Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It