“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
“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.’”
“[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.”
“I understand veganism as a process and a commitment to living a life with compassion. Veganism is not a stable or unitary response to production and consumption, it is active and comprehensive in its consideration of how best to respond to the commodification and degradation of life that takes place in the contemporary context of agribusiness production. Veganism is not even just about animals, it’s about people, the producers, workers, transporters and sellers of food, it’s about the environment, it’s about our whole relationship to the big broad world out there.”
- Emilie
“Poor Punxsutawney Phil gets carried around, held up, and traumatized by weird, old men in top hats.”
“Now, vegans talking about food is a bit of a cliche [...] what you eat is as big a part of veganism as what you *don’t* eat - since we have to eat something and all - so I am going to talk about it and sucks if you don’t like that.”
