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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“Avoiding animal products can contribute to reducing the misery we inflict upon animals, to making more food—not less—available to feed a growing population, to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change, and to lessening the risk of another pandemic.”

“. . . it is likely that many birds [chickens] are not properly stunned. Some will have their throats cut while fully conscious, but others will also miss the blade. The conveyor belt then takes them into a tank of scalding water, intended to remove their feathers. Those birds that have not yet been stunned nor had their throats cut will die by drowning in scalding water.”

“Surely one day, though, our children’s children, reading about what was done in laboratories in our era, will feel the same sense of horror and incredulity at what otherwise civilized people could do that we now feel when we read about the atrocities of the Roman gladiatorial arenas or the eighteenth-century slave trade.”

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