The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if its a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But its so much more alienating than vegetarianism. – Jonathan Safran Foer

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of ones friends and relatives children. – P. J. ORourke