Emily Hess

“Feelings and emotions are mechanisms that evolved in all mammals in order to encourage adaptive behaviors. The areas in the human brain which are related to basic emotions like fear, anger, and mother-infant bonding are very similar to those we find in other mammals. Indeed, the very definition of mammals is based on the loving bond between mother and offspring." With all of their feelings and needs now utterly crushed in modern systems, surrounded by machinery and handled like machinery, animals in factory farms are thus "uniquely miserable" creatures, Harari writes. They might even be worse off, as a group, than any other creatures that ever lived.”
― Matthew Scully, Fear Factories: Arguments about Innocent Creatures and Merciless People

“It's no revelation-just a reminder we can all use- that farm animals suffer emotionally as well as physically.  Only various modern theories, like behaviorism, have every really questioned this, and those same theorie imagine a world in which all creatures but us merely mimic conscious feeling, unaware even of their agonies.”
― Matthew Scully, Fear Factories: Arguments about Innocent Creatures and Merciless People

“Unthinkable to most people today, obvious to most people tomorrow: We are all better off without the whole sorry business. And in the vocabulary of civilized people, who will miss the term "slaughterhouse"?”
― Matthew Scully, Fear Factories: Arguments about Innocent Creatures and Merciless People

“How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth,
With its swirling vaporous atmosphere,
Its flowing and frozen climbing creatures,
The croaking things with wings that hang on rocks
And soar through fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas...
How utterly rich and wild...
Yet some among us have the nerve,
The insolence, the brass, the gall to whine
About the limitations of our earthbound fate
And yearn for some more perfect world beyond the sky.
We are none of us good enough
For the World we have.

by Edward Abbey”
― Elizabeth Roberts, Life Prayers : From Around the World : 365 Prayers, Blessings, and Affirmations to Celebrate the Human Journey