Concern Quote by Will Tuttle

“Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.”

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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural…

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How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

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Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope…

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We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us…

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Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

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The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could…

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There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression…

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“Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed…

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There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

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“until we are willing and able to make the connections between what we are eating and what was required to get it on our…

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