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“To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.”
― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

tags: animals, factory-farming, food, identifying, meat, people, suffering

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“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”
― Gary Steiner, Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

tags: ethics, humanity, morality, speciesism

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“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see (or hear about) what they do.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animal-rights, eating-animals, factory-farming, veganism, vegetarianism

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