“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with the original motivation, which in… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our… — Matthew Scully Copy Share
“I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that vegetarianism runs… — Matthew Scully Copy Share
“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.” — Matthew Scully Copy Share
