Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals Quotes

“The greatest evil in the world is done by people who don't necessarily think about whether what they are doing is bad, but who simply go along with what others do and with what the norm is.”
― Roanne van Voorst, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

“Albert Einstein said, "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
― Roanne van Voorst, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

“I would argue that this ability to feel compassion makes our behavior equally uncivilized at times. We turn a blind eye to cruelty, not because we don't care, but precisely because our deep human values are inconsistent with how we treat animals in our time. The information we are fed about this, which comes to us via newspaper articles, shocking video images that appear on social media, and now via the words written on these pages, makes us so uncomfortable that we can do nothing other than immediately distance ourselves from it. We ignore it; we act as if it's not happening.”
― Roanne van Voorst, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

“Animal eaters see themselves as good, friendly, civilized people, and good, friendly, civilized people wouldn't let intelligent sensitive beings suffer unnecessarily.  In their minds, therefore, pigs have to stay stupid and incapable of emotion, and meat has to stay necessary for human health.  ”
― Roanne van Voorst, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food