The only good cage is an empty cage.
Lawrence AnthonyTags: animals animal-rights wildlife
Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.
David Foster WallaceTags: ethics morals animal-rights animal-liberation
I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.
Derrick JensenTags: animals animal-rights murder death vegan vegetarian meat eating duck ducks
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: animal-rights martin-luther-king-jr
Some folks insist that believing in animal rights is like a religion.
But religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, while animal rights advocates ask followers to see things nobody can believe.
Tags: animal-rights religion
Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.
Christopher GerardTags: animals animal-rights animal-welfare animals-stories-heroism
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
T. Casey BrennanTags: humor life food animal-rights gluttony value-of-life
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing
Michael PollanTags: animals animal-rights animal-cruelty animal
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Milan KunderaTags: animals animal-rights animal-cruelty animal-welfare
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
Francesca Lia BlockTags: animals animal-rights dogs animal-cruelty animal-welfare dog animal pounds animal-kindness
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