“The seeds of progress and moral development are certainly extant, yet dormant within most. Veganism is already highly consistent with notions held by the majority, albeit in a logical suspension… such as the very popular opposition to unnecessary suffering.”
“Of course we cried out in horror when we found out what they had been up to. We cried: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like cattle! If we had only known beforehand! But our cry should more accurately have been: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like units in an industrial process! And that cry should have had a postscript: What a terrible crime, come to think of it - a crime against nature - to treat any living being like a unit in an industrial process!”
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Animals, Morality, Race, Religion
ethics, industry, similarities
“One does not have to be good already to have the right to try to get better.”
“Just like all other movements for social change, the pro-animal movement exhibits a wide variety of ideas, personalities, and methods of activism.”
“When we are confronted with nay-sayers who argue that veganism is scary and unpopular, remember that the anti-slavery movement was very unpopular when William Wilberforce took on the establishment, of which he was very much a part. If we don’t draw that line in the sand, as did Wilberforce, who will?”
” I wanted to show–through my actions, words and normalcy–that anyone could be vegan. And enjoy it. And make it work.“After all, I was once a meat eater. And for years, I was the vegetarian who said I could ‘never give up cheese.’”
“[A] weave of ideas and observations and scientific disclosures and pharmacological behaviors and real life patterns and personal philosophies that have added up to give me the opinion that anti-depressants, as currently described and prescribed, are a bad idea.”
- Nezua in response to this study.
“America needs a President who will deliver concrete reforms that fill the gaps in our food safety system.”
“[T]here is no legitimate argument on behalf of consuming corporate meat. Convenience is not a legitimate argument. Price is not a legitimate argument. The delicious flavor of applewood smoked bacon is not a legitimate argument. Tradition is not a legitimate argument. Culture is not a legitimate argument.”
“Labels don’t matter as much as how those who are labeled are treated. Language has power, but actions speak louder than words.”
