Intimacy requires a slow, cumulative build of safety between people who agree to a relationship, an ongoing connection of care and concern. The performance of pain is essentially a form of bonding over trauma, and people can get addicted to their endorphins.

So you’re an environmentalist; why are you supporting commodities instead of food, corporate profits over local, living economies, and power over justice?

Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. If you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.

Plants have to eat, too,” I tried to explain. “They need nitrogen, they need minerals. You have to replace what you’re taking out. Your choices are fossil fuels or animal products.

Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going for the throat, or viruses attacking animals. “All of nature is a conjugation of the verb ‘to eat,’” in the words of William Ralph Inge.

Dr. Steven Bratman has coined the term orthorexia nervosa, a pathological fixation on eating proper food.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

Tits are inconsequential, but someone pass me that kitten.

Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?

For those of us who can’t be active on the front lines – and this will be most of us – our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.