The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice WalkerTags: animal-welfare
I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: animal-welfare disgrace kick-a-cat
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew ScullyTags: animals animal-rights evil necessity meat animal-welfare factory-farms carnism
Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today?
Steven M. WiseTags: animals animal-rights suffering animal-welfare vegetarians vegans factory-farms cafos
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.
Ellen DeGeneresTags: animals ethics animal-rights animal-cruelty vegan veganism animal-welfare cosmetics prisoners animal-testing
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
- On Religion
Tags: animal-rights animal-cruelty cruelty animal-welfare
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
Tags: inspirational animal-welfare
There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without the superadded horrors of ... life in a tin case, hung from a nail in the wall of a dark shop... Why does the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals never look into the woes of parrots?
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However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her.
Tags: intelligence animal-welfare captivity parrots
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
Peter SingerTags: animal-rights animal-welfare sustainability agribusiness
Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.
Thomas HardyTags: reading animal-cruelty animal-welfare jude-the-obscure
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