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“In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

tags: animals, eating, ethics, food, meat

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“Dating's all about giving you chances to bump and brush and touch and, occasionally, talk.”
― Patricia McLinn, Almost a Bride

tags: dating-advice

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“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, animal-welfare, animals, cosmetics, ethics, prisoners, vegan, veganism

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“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.”
― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

tags: animals, dairy, eggs, factory-farming, food, ignorance, industry, meat

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