“It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried,…

“It is frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried, flayed, and devored by us, in spite of the fact that we are not obliged to this by necessity; while in sinning against the defenceless and helpless, just claimants as they are upon our reasonable conscience and upon our compassion, we succeed only in brutalising ourselves.” – Georg Friedrich Daumer, quoted by Howard Williams in The Ethics of Diet

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“Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.” - Voltaire - View Quote Details on “Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of…
” I have often thought, if it was not for this tyranny which custom usurps over us, that men of any tolerable good-nature could never be reconcil’d to the killing of so many animals for their daily food. - Bernard Mandeville, On The Fable of the Bees - View Quote Details on ” I have often thought, if it was not for…
“Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of gladiators, torture of prisioners, and other atrocities are held to be scandalous and shameful, while in earlier times they were thought quite justifiable and right, so in the future will be the murder of animals, to feed upon their corpses, be pronounced to be immoral and indefensible.” – Wilhelm Zimmermann(1819-1885), The Way to Paradise - View Quote Details on “Just as, in our days, exposure of children, combats of…
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.” - Henry David Thoreau (On Walden ) - View Quote Details on “I have no doubt that it is a part of…
“We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us to endeavour to maintain a meat based agriculture and a primary carnivorous diet.” - Michael W. Fox, Inhumane Society, 1990 - View Quote Details on “We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us…
“As for me, I could never so much as endure, without remorse and griefe, to see a poore, sillie, and innocent beast pursued and killed, which is harmelesse and voide of defence, and of whom we receive no offence at all. - Montaigne, Of Cruelty - View Quote Details on “As for me, I could never so much as endure,…
“How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?” - Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 251 - View Quote Details on “How can one, who eats the flesh of others to…
Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - View Quote Details on Peter Singer, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our…
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” - Dr. T. Colin Campbell - View Quote Details on “In the next ten years, one of the things you’re…
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson - View Quote Details on “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is…