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“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.”

Locked in for this gd reading goal 🙏🙏😩

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“What is death? . . . It is nothing more than a function of nature - and if anyone is frightened of a function of nature, he is a mere child.”

Nauseating

“Why doesn’t a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”