In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture, and wildlife management. Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can--forgetting to ask whether we should.

Wayne Pacelle

Tag: compassion animals food humans agriculture bond

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We know too much, and what might have been excused in other times can no longer stand up to reason. ... with that understanding comes moral responsibility.

Wayne Pacelle

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... there's a vast gap between what we know and what we allow, what objective science affirms and what the laws permit.

Wayne Pacelle

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Often the greatest challenge of the animal welfare movement is to remind people of the things they already know to be true-that to mistreat any animal is beneath us, that cruelty of any kind is dishonorable and inexcusable, and that we all have duties of kindness and self-restraint in the treatment of our fellow creatures.

Wayne Pacelle

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