“Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units,… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings,… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Wildlife, we are constantly told, would run loose across our towns and cities were it not for the sport hunters to control… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“It is true, as we are often reminded, that kindness to animals is among the humbler duties of human charity--though for just… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What’s wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from American Walter… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning,… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely,… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“I think he overlook a phase: that empathy stage in our lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“The corporate farmer is the absent farmer, the stranger on his own property, too important to worry about little details like whether a pig… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
