"In most countries, it is possible to visit……" — Peter Singer
"In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road."
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Peter Singer
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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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how…
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I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I…
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware…
— David Attenborough
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the…
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