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“When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.” quote by Moby — Download Open image

“When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.”

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Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.

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