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“It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books on food and food politics, contribute to the 'enfreakment' of what is so often patronizingly referred to as the vegan or vegetarian 'lifestyle.' But again, the marginalization of those who care about animals is nothing new. Diane Beers writes in her book For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States that 'several late nineteenth-century physicians concocted a diagnosable for of mental illness to explain such bizarre behavior. Sadly, they pronounced these misguided souls suffered from "zoophilpsychosis."' As Beers describes, zoophilpsychosis (an excessive concern for animals) was more likely to be diagnosed in women, who were understood to be 'particularly susceptible to the malady.' As the early animal advocacy movement in Britain and the United States was largely made up of women, such charges worked to uphold the subjugation both of women and of nonhuman animals.”
― Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

“Denying someone [else] justice just because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea. I am also convinced we cannot have disability liberation without animal liberation--they are intimately tied together. What if, rather than dismissing or disassociating for the struggle of animals, we embraced what political theorist Claire Jean Kim calls an 'ethics of avowal,' a recognition that oppressions are linked, and that we can be 'open in meaningful and sustained way to the suffering and claims of other subordinated groups, even or perhaps especially in the course of political battle'? Compassion is not a limited resource.”
― Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

“Father figures and male authorities hold a sinister interest in controlling girl bodies, and therefore in harming them.”
― Alice Bolin, Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving American Culture

“Because the media are beholden to their largest advertisers—the pharmaceutical, chemical, petroleum, and fast-food industries—we don’t easily learn that meat, dairy products, and eggs are not a helpful source of protein, calcium, and other nutrients. We are not informed that animal-sourced foods are linked with diabetes, osteoporosis, liver disease, kidney disease, obesity, heart disease, strokes, and dementia, as well as breast, prostate, and colon cancer and other debilitating diseases.”
― Will Tuttle, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World