“at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What’s wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from… — 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… — Matthew Scully Animal 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
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
“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral… — Matthew Scully Animal suffering 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 Animals 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 Comparable 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… — Matthew Scully Accepting 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… — Matthew Scully Animal 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
“I think he overlook a phase: that empathy stage in our lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals… — Matthew Scully Compassion 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 Long ago 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 Evil 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 Factory farming 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 Animals 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 Intellectuals 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
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
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
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
Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings,… — Matthew Scully Animal 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
I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and… — Matthew Scully American 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
