“This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”
― A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
― A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
“If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.”
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“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
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