Lexi Smith

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: animal-rights, communication, companies, companion-animals, delusion, education, happy-meat, marketing, morality, vegan

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“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

tags: animal-rights, animal-welfare, animals, carnism, evil, factory-farms, meat, necessity

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“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, dictator, evil, ignorance, specieism, vegan

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