1. “Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.” — Jane Goodall

 

2. “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

3. “Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in…man is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”— Mark Twain

 

4. “Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is — whether its victim is human or animal — we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.”— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

 

5. “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”— Sir Paul McCartney

 

6. “We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the devil in human form.” — William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays

 

7. “I am sometimes asked ‘Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?’ I answer: ‘I am working at the roots.’” — George T. Angell

 

8. “As soon as I realized that I didn’t need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It’s a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I’ve seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.” — Cloris Leachman

 

9. “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.” — Albert Schweitzer

 

10. “Time after time, the argument is thrown at conservationists (or any animal-lover) that we are reacting “emotionally” as if this is somehow ‘a bad thing’. Representatives of the fur trade tell us we are “emotional”. Whalers tell us we are “emotional”. Hunters tell us we are “emotional”. Yet humans are supposed to have emotions - our emotions are supposedly something that ‘elevate’ us above ‘lower’ forms of life. We can talk, we can think, and we can feel. We get angry, we love, we laugh, we get passionate, become involved, we care, we want to protect.” —– Charlie Moores

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