Gary Yourofsky Quotes

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• You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
• It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and…
• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at…
• My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is…
• If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy…
• How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?
• If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing…
• Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.
• Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.
• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the…
• Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who…
• What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.
• It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.
• If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.
• The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after…
• Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of…
• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.
• I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm…
• Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that…
• If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

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