Animals Quote by Carol J. Adams

“Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.” quote by Carol J. Adams — Download Open image

““Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.””

Carol J. Adams

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“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

Carol J. Adams

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While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating,…

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“If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for announcing one's…

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Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who…

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“Granted, vegetarian naming wrests meat eating from a context of acceptance; this does not invalidate its mission. One thing must be acknowledged about vegetarian naming as exemplified in the above examples: these are true words. The dissonance they produce is not due to their being false, but to their being too accurate. These words do not adhere to our common…

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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat…

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“The situation is established not only to provoke defensiveness but to sidetrack the reformer into answering the wrong questions… In this, the pattern of…

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“I think that in terms of emotion, that our culture allows men to be angry. The animal rights movement gives men a legitimate reason…

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What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school…

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“In accepting as two primary texts, Singer's Animal Liberation and Regan's The Case for Animal Rights--texts that valorize rationality--the animal defense movement reiterates a…

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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.

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“We believe that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities.”

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