If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Marianne MooreTag: animal-rights animal-cruelty fur
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
Gary L. FrancioneTag: education morality animal-rights communication vegan delusion marketing companies companion-animals happy-meat
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
Gary L. FrancioneTag: reality education animal-rights vegan teacher teach learn
We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely harvest for food, with the help of modern high technology and the animal food sciences.
Marc BekoffTag: food animal-rights vegan speciesism
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
Marc BekoffTag: animals animal-rights suffer speciesism
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.
Marc BekoffTag: pain compassion animals animal-rights suffer speciesism
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!
Marc BekoffTag: life food animal-rights vegan humans starving speciesism
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.
Marc BekoffTag: 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 BekoffTag: animal-rights vegan killing hunting speciesism
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Marc BekoffTag: animal-rights evil vegan ignorance dictator specieism
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