“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.”
“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?”
“It’s difficult to get people to turn their backs on “traditions” and “rites of passage” that have existed for a long time, but I’ve got to hope that people will eventually see compassion as a tradition worth being remembered for.”
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’
But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’”“And there comes a point when one must take a position that is
neither safe,
nor polite,
nor popular,
but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that
it is right.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“[...]what’s inherently humane about killing a sentient being when you don’t need to[? ...] Slaughter isn’t compassionate or kind.”
“It’s quite possible for something to be immoral and still rational.”
- Holly
“Ultimately, the way you live your life should be fruitful for those around you so you leave the world a little bit better.”
