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
Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the… — Matthew Scully Away Copy Share Image
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little… — Matthew Scully Beloved Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Age 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
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
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
“My earliest recollection is of coming upon some rabbit tracks in the backyard snow. I must have been three or so, but… — Matthew Scully Seen Rabbit 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… — Matthew Scully Objections Copy Share Image
“Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
“Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are… — 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
