"I don't understand the notion that modern farming……" — Peter Singer
"I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature."
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198 Quotes by Peter Singer
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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics,…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters,…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others…
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More Farming Quotes
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be…
— Wendell Berry
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
— David R. Brower
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to…
— Wendell Berry
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
— Cato the Elder
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It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be…
— Prince Charles
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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that…
— Tom Vilsack
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of…
— Peter Singer
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Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in…
— David Suzuki
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Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be…
— Prince Charles
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