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Animals Quote by Bob Torres

“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is structured to exploit animals. We’re encouraged to understand both are natural and inevitable, but neither are. Both exploitations have long and contentious histories as part of the…” quote by Bob Torres — Download Open image

““Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is structured to exploit animals. We’re encouraged to understand both are natural and inevitable, but neither are. Both exploitations have long and contentious histories as part of the development of our modern economic order.””

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

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“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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