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“It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.” quote by Jon Katz — Download Open image

“It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.”

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I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from…

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet…

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

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We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

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