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- I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on…
- People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
- There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that…
- As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer…
- Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
- Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
- If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then…
- In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression…
- As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a…
- Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
- Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.
- Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
- Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important,…
- It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves…
- Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it…
- Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we…
- More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
- But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
- Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.
- We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They…
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson