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Animal Quotes by Michael Pollan
- There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive…
- A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be…
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories…
- We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending…
- A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
- The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it,…
- But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
- The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology…
- The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
- Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals…
- This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to…
- Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been…
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough