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• To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is…
• In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,
• If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic…
• If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.
• Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.…
• The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their…
• It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce…
• It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
• I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does…
• What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only…
• If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or…
• Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the…

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