Ali Georgescu

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“It's not that there are no differences between human and non-human animals, any more than there are no differences between black people and white people, freeborn citizens and slaves, men and women, Jews and gentiles, gays or heterosexuals. The question is rather: are they morally relevant differences? This matters because morally catastrophic consequences can ensue when we latch on to a real but morally irrelevant difference between sentient beings.”
― David Pearce

tags: animals, animals-rights, antiracism, antispeciesism, ethics, lgbt, vegan, veganism

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“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, factory-farming, meat, science, veganism, vegetarianism

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“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”
― GaryLFrancione

tags: abolition, abolitionist, ahimsa, ethical, francione, moral-imperative, nonviolence, peace, property, resources, rights, sentient-beings, slavery, veganism

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“Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.”
― Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden

tags: bacon, compassion, love, peace, vegan, veganism

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“Go to the meat market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who naliest geese to the ground and feistiest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras.”
― Herman Melville

tags: cannibalism, humor, veganism

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