'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.' — Matthew Scully Agriculture Copy Share Image
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully Evil Copy Share Image
I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church. — Matthew Scully Admire 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… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can… — Matthew Scully Accustomed 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 Animal 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 About Copy Share Image
Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too… — Matthew Scully Broken 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 Animal Copy Share Image
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,… — Matthew Scully Conflict Copy Share Image
“Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable… — Matthew Scully Evils 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… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Angry 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 Animal 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,… — Matthew Scully Crank 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 Animal 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Animal 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 Animal 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 Ability 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 Animal 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… — Matthew Scully Farmer Copy Share Image
“I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that… — Matthew Scully Conscience 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 Abolition Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Animal 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 Animal Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Advise 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… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
“Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not… — Matthew Scully Arrogance 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 Animals Copy Share Image
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes. — Matthew Scully Advise 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait… — Matthew Scully Animal 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 Animal 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… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves… — Matthew Scully Intellectual 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 Among Copy Share Image
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully About Copy Share Image
