I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by...

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately,...

An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits… they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs … He who in studying all the different species of...

Oh. How very clever.”The comparison had left her both impressed and flattered.

How do they find out with the experiments?”…one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one...

You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population – not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can’t save...

I could hear an old man in the stall next to ours sucking a hustler’s cock; I thought of animals gathering at a salt lick during the night near a cave: carnivore rubbing shoulders with...

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people...

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what’s missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back...

I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine

He was just seeing animals out there not getting care because pet owners had to make their decisions with their pocketbooks and not their hearts.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but… why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

As a kid, I loved being surrounded by mountains, creeks and animals, and volunteering with my mom on initiatives to help protect the environment. Being part of this contest is one important way I can...

I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn’t have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love,...

We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to animals being wounded and suffering.

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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

The beauty in the genome is of course that it’s so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data…which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire...

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals...

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

It has no disease control system. This virus can infect not only birds, but other animals too,

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring...

Here’s something you must know and don’t forget it – animals never lie. They don’t like, they don’t put on disguises, and they are always true to what they are. That’s why you can trust...

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...

Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the...

motricity,” is a requirement for the development of the nervous system.

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.

The good thing about HBO is that they have the bigger picture in mind. And Last Chance for Animals has a (free-standing) bill pending in Congress called The Pet Safety and Protection Act. And they...

It’s a misguided attempt at managing wildlife, and the animals have done nothing but suffer. Nothing positive has come from this management plan.

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what’s unique about language isn’t the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What’s unique about...

In this surveillance for animals, particularly at the grassroots level, there’s some room for improvement in China. It’s too early to make any conclusion that the virus is already eliminated in China.

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things.” We talked about how animals don’t just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial...

As more outbreaks occur among poultry and animals around the world, and as more human cases occur, the virus has more chances to transmit more effectively from animals to humans, or possibly among humans as...

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends,...

To be a vegetarian is to disagree – to disagree with the course of things today… starvation, cruelty – we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it’s...

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Love is two unicorns arguing over which is better: one animal with two horns, like a bull, or two animals with one horn apiece. I guess it doesn’t matter, because you should never debate when...

compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice...

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere...

I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn’t just about them; it’s about us, how we behave.