“Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.” — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong. — 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
