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- We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure,…
- None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the…
- Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. Â That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that…
- Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation…
- If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Â Can you choose not to be vegan? Â Sure. Â…
- They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything…
- If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.
- Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the…
- You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you…
- Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
- I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated…
- We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into…
- ...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
- We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
- I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
- We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.
- There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or…
- Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as…
- If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.
- If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.
- It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.
- It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly…
- We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
- There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and…
- We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- 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
- 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
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman