"And suddenly the circle came together for me. We were as a civilization making one big mistake, a mistake that was understandable because we had been raised to make it. We had been culturally indoctrinated to believe it to be not a mistake at all, but rather a normal and healthy habit. But this mistake was killing us as individuals just as it was destroying our land and our forests and our rivers. We were eating dead animals, and it wasn't working. If those animals had set out to take their revenge on us, they couldn't have done a better job."
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Activists from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesFarmersAnimal rights activistsPeople from Montana
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Ch. 4: From the Farm to the Capital, pp. 80-81
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