These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.
Marc BekoffMots clés animal-rights killing fishing hunting speciesism
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat
Marc BekoffMots clés animal-rights vegan killing hunting speciesism
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Marc BekoffMots clés animal-rights evil vegan ignorance dictator specieism
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.
Marc BekoffMots clés pain animal-rights vegan brain feel speciesism
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.
Marc BekoffMots clés animal-rights vegan suffering-life speciesism
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.
Marc BekoffMots clés animals ethics consistency
The plural of anecdote is not data.
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