Carol J. Adams

“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

— Carol J. Adams

While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of…

— Carol J. Adams

“If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for…

— Carol J. Adams

Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we…

— Carol J. Adams

“Granted, vegetarian naming wrests meat eating from a context of acceptance; this does not invalidate its mission. One thing must be acknowledged…

— Carol J. Adams

We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as…

— Carol J. Adams

“Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.”

— Carol J. Adams

“The situation is established not only to provoke defensiveness but to sidetrack the reformer into answering the wrong questions.... In this, the…

— Carol J. Adams

“I think that in terms of emotion, that our culture allows men to be angry. The animal rights movement gives men a…

— Carol J. Adams

What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their…

— Carol J. Adams

“In accepting as two primary texts, Singer's Animal Liberation and Regan's The Case for Animal Rights--texts that valorize rationality--the animal defense movement…

— Carol J. Adams

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.

— Carol J. Adams

“We believe that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural…

— Carol J. Adams

“In a situation where flesh is consumed, vegetarians inevitably call attention to themselves. They have made something absent on their plates; perhaps…

— Carol J. Adams

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

— Carol J. Adams