It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.
Kōbō AbeStichwörter: animals
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
ColetteStichwörter: friends animals pets companions
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
Karl LagerfeldStichwörter: life truth animals world humanity people meat fashion design clothing clothes create childish shoes chanel designer karl-lagerfeld cretivity eathing fur wear wearing
The forest has shrunk
And fear has expanded,
The forests have dwindled,
There are less animals now,
less courage and less lightning,
less beauty
and the moon lies bare,
deflowered by force and
then abandoned.
Stichwörter: fear animals beauty courage moon lightning forests
I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
Ke$haStichwörter: animals death fashion roadkill
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.
Matthew ScullyStichwörter: reason animals morality taste gluttony
Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards, it is usually best in any moral inquiry to start with the original motivation, which in the case of animals we may without embarrassment call love. Human beings love animals as only the higher love the lower, the knowing love the innocent, and the strong love the vulnerable. When we wince at the suffering of animals, that feeling speaks well of us even when we ignore it, and those who dismiss love for our fellow creatures as mere sentimentality overlook a good and important part of our humanity.
Matthew ScullyStichwörter: love animals humanity
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew ScullyStichwörter: animals animal-rights evil necessity meat animal-welfare factory-farms carnism
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 MassonStichwörter: animals food meat ignorance industry eggs dairy factory-farming
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.
Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonStichwörter: intelligence animals ignorance
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