Animal Quote by Sharon Gannon

“Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans…

— Gary Francione

“The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference…

— Peter Singer

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

— Franz Kafka

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those…

— Temple Grandin

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to…

— Gary L. Francione

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all,…

— Dalai Lama

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus…

— Immanuel Kant

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or…

— Gary L. Francione

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one…

— Gary L. Francione

Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical…

— Sharon Gannon

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years.…

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

— Alice Walker