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To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

—J.M. Coetzee

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If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war....

—Jonathan Safran

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My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, ‘Don’t harm, and do help.’ And now the question is, ‘Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?’ And the answer is, ‘Of course they...

—Shelly Kagan

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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It...

—Albert Schweitzer

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People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

—Gary L.

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Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

—Karen Davis

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I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

—Shannon L. Alder

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The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus,...

—Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don’t after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal?...

—Morrissey

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We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

—Peter Singer

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I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as...

—J.M. Coetzee

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It shouldn’t be the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s cruel and what’s kind, what’s environmentally destructive and what’s sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying...

—Jonathan Safran

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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

—Theodor W.

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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong...

—Albert Schweitzer

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Cultural indoctrination makes stupid people believe there’s nothing wrong in Meat Eating. There is. Who eat it, lose “It”.

—Fakeer Ishavardas

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I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually ‘decided’ what experiences count and even exist in the world. The language of Western science–the reigning construct of male hegemony–precludes the ability...

—Karen Davis

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saved” because we choose not to save ourselves.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.

—Christopher Gerard

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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?

—Matthew Scully

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The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

—Peter Singer

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No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no...

—J.M. Coetzee

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Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind’s intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is...

—Joy Williams

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Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.

—T. Casey

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All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we submit to these mechanisms is not a matter of rationality: to cut...

—Brian Luke

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There’s plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don’t hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

—Fakeer Ishavardas

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The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard...

—Lawrence Anthony

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In the preface of ‘The Rifles’… Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing.

—William T.

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victimless” crime. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the trafficked items come from murdered animals; Rhinoceros Horn, Ivory and Tiger skins; and hundreds of thousands of birds and animals die in transit...

—Christopher Gerard

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Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a “right” to exploit those who cannot...

—Marc Bekoff

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To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are...

—Peter Singer

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Treblinka – 100% human stereate.” Am I dreaming, I say to myself? What kind of house is this?Yet I’m not dreaming. I look into your eyes, into Norma’s, into the children’s, and I see only...

—J.M. Coetzee

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Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

—Milan Kundera

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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we’ve got to do it right. We’ve got to give those animals a decent life and we’ve got to give them a...

—Temple Grandin

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A postsexist environment is not something that animal liberationists need passively await, in the meantime deferring to present sexism in the manner of our presentation.

—Brian Luke

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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

—Immanuel Kant

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The only good cage is an empty cage.

—Lawrence Anthony

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Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, ‘nothing’ is the far more likely outcome. I ask these...

—Steven M.

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Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it’s impossible to look an ape in the eye and not...

—Frans de

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Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it...

—Marc Bekoff

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We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order...

—Peter Singer

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You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another...

—Francesca Lia

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Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to ascribe human characteristics–such as fidelity or altruism or pride, or emotions such as...

—Joy Williams

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So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul (his words, not mine), I silently panicked and wrote lines of...

—T.J. Klune

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From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer’s and Regan’s theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer’s utilitarian theory and Regan’s rights approach are developed within a framework of patriarchal norms,...

—Brian Luke

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Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would...

—Farley Mowat

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But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but...

—Lawrence Anthony

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To be ‘for animals’ is not to be ‘against humanity.’ To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in...

—Tom Regan

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Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

—Colin McGinn

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A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve...

—Marc Bekoff

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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

—Paul Watson

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