#animals

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#factory-farming #meat #science #veganism #vegetarianism

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#cruelty #goodness #character

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dogs #different

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#problems

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#animals #barbarism #compassion #cruelty #morality

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty! ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#vegetarian #america

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. ↗

— Betty White

#criticism

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#bill-watterson #calvin-and-hobbes #hugs #progress

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#communication #companies #companion-animals #delusion #education

Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#listen #talk #animals