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• When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,…
• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot…
• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity…
• Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings,…
• Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little…
• My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or…
• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units,…
• Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do…
• Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too…
• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…
• Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of…
• The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can…

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