animal-welfare

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e599648	When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?	animal-welfare animals carnism evil factory-farms meat necessity	Matthew Scully
7bc8bcd	Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. -	animal-rights animal-welfare cruelty	Arthur Schopenhauer
709f64f	Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers	animal-rights animal-welfare sustainability	Peter Singer
59d4721	You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn't go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.	animal-cruelty animal-kindness animal-rights animal-welfare animals dog dogs pounds	Francesca Lia Block
04776bd	This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting--to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.	animal-rights animal-welfare animals food hunting meat veganism vegetarianism	Michael Pollan
7c89be8	Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.	animal-welfare jude-the-obscure reading	Thomas Hardy
bdedd92	If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.	animal-welfare biology evolution humanity morals research science	Jared Diamond

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

animal-welfare animals carnism evil factory-farms meat necessity

Matthew Scully

7bc8bcd

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. -

animal-rights animal-welfare cruelty

Arthur Schopenhauer

709f64f

Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers

animal-rights animal-welfare sustainability

Peter Singer

59d4721

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn't go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

animal-cruelty animal-kindness animal-rights animal-welfare animals dog dogs pounds

Francesca Lia Block

04776bd

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting--to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

animal-rights animal-welfare animals food hunting meat veganism vegetarianism

Michael Pollan

7c89be8

Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

animal-welfare jude-the-obscure reading

Thomas Hardy

bdedd92

If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.

animal-welfare biology evolution humanity morals research science

Jared Diamond