This for many people is what is 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. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.
Michael PollanTag: animals vegetarianism food animal-rights animal-cruelty veganism meat animal-welfare hunting
If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.
Gary L. FrancioneTag: animal-cruelty veganism vegetarian animal-welfare vegan-quotes humane-slaughter animal-exploitation high-welfare vegetarian-quotes
...almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.
Victoria FinlayTag: animal-cruelty jewelry
Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, turning their tusks (so much more elegant left on the elephant) into artistic carvings. In much the same way, the beautiful furs from leopard, jaguar, Snow leopard, Clouded leopard and so on, are used to clad the inelegant bodies of thoughtless and, for the most part, ugly women. I wonder how many would buy these furs if they knew that on their bodies they wore the skin of an animal that, when captured, was killed by the medieval and agonizing method of having a red-hot rod inserted up its rectum so as not to mark the skin.
Gerald DurrellTag: animal-cruelty conservation fur-trade
Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.
Keisha KeenleysideTag: dogs animal-cruelty sad pets cruelty
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 PollanTag: 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 KunderaTag: 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 BlockTag: animals animal-rights dogs animal-cruelty animal-welfare dog animal pounds animal-kindness
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.
Temple GrandinTag: animals animal-cruelty
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.
Zeena SchreckTag: animal-rights environmentalism animal-cruelty ignorance wolves werewolves shapeshifters witch-hunts animal-liberation animal-stories zeena-schreck beatdom
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