"In the summer or fall of 1974, I……" — Matthew Scully
"In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it."
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28 Quotes by Matthew Scully
Matthew Scully has 28 quotes on this site.
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of…
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that…
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God…
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Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to…
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most…
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My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a…
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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are…
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Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings…
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Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless.…
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An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of…
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Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the…
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The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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