Animal Quote by Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams

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…

— Carol J. Adams

“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…

— Carol J. Adams

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…

— Carol J. Adams

“Granted, vegetarian naming wrests meat eating from a context of acceptance; this does not invalidate its mission. One thing must be acknowledged about vegetarian…

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams

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…

— Carol J. Adams

“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…

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Carol J. Adams