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