Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation…just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern...

Given the industry’s reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA’s failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, … Transporting farm animals for...

Man is no man, but a wolf

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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it...

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss.

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.

the single largest translocation of animals undertaken since Noah’s Ark.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Monsters are beasts that cannot be tamed.

It’s simply not big enough, it’s simply not fair, and these animals will wither away and die if not give the proper need and proper room. We have the capability to save these animals’ lives.

I can’t abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy the animals on the farm so much is that they don’t think about their pain,...

Great teachers often come to us in humble packaging. That little dog held the wisdom of a sage in his heart. I learned from him that healing is not about the success or failure of...

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don’t want them to suffer. And...

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health,...

God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.

It’s for Weston. Weston likes animals. I do, too. I like octopuses. I can’t help it.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there’s some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing that gets me is that it’s not possible for the animals...

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity – indeed to all living beings. Therein lies fulfillment. All men are kin. They are of the same likeness, the same build,...

Animals don’t know as much about jealousy as people, but they’re not ignorant of it, either.

You get lots of animals confined in a pretty tight area, so there are concerns about disease transmission.

Animal?Ao pensar nesse termo sentiu um leve embaraço.Era um animal, Luisito? Ou era algo diferente?O que era afinal um animal?No desdém do uso comum, as pessoas esqueciam-se muito facilmente da essência dessa palavra. Anima, o...

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

One’s interest or need does not annul other’s right.

We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with...

If a person fights, that’s their own choice,” Angel says. “But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don’t have a choice there. They can’t decide not...

If frogs had side pockets, they’d carry hand guns.

At last, I came to the Lost Dog’s Home which my map told me marked teh turnoff to Shelly Beach.You could hear some of the dogs barking, calling out for their owners to come and...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are...

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most,...

People won’t think it will be enforced. It’s already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren’t, so when they act like lions you’re angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don’t...

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life...

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don’t have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise...

Interest and advocacy groups’ response to the purchasing of older animals has been very limited. Now more than ever, we need stewards from the ranching community and other supporters who care about public lands to...

I had to have company — I was made for it, I think — so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways;...