Animal Industry Quotes
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These are quotes pertaining to specific worldwide institutions in which animals are exploited and abused. I start off with quotes about animal exploitation in general before moving on to the specific industries; experimenting on animals, enslaving/capturing animals, animals used in clothing and fashion, hunting and fishing, and factory farming.
General Industry Quote
Should reverence for life be a priority in our lives?...Each day around the world, humans display supreme arrogance by ordering the death of other creatures for convenience, for progress, or for sport.
-Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
-Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit nonhumans for the same purpose?
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.
-Dennis Bardens
-Dennis Bardens
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness.
-Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny
-Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vivisection and experimenting on animals
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
-Charles R. Magel
-Charles R. Magel
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
-George Bernard Shaw
-George Bernard Shaw
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as dogs are. Few people feel sympathy for rats. Yet rats are intelligent animals, and there can be no doubt that rats are capable of suffering and do suffer from countless painful experiments performed on them. If the army were to stop experiments on dogs and switch to rats instead, we should not be any less concerned.
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Reite and his colleagues experimented on chimpanzees because relatively little experimental work had been done on the great apes, as compared with monkeys. They apparently felt no need to address the basic question of why we should be doing any experiments on maternal deprivation in animals at all. They did not even try to justify their experiments by claiming they were of benefit to human beings. That we already have extensive observations of orphaned chimpanzees in the wild seems not to have been of interest to them. Their attitude was plain: this has been done with animals of one species, but not with animals of another, so let's do it to them. The most amazing part of the story is that taxpayers have paid for all this research – to the tune of over $58 million for maternal deprivation research alone.
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Enslaving and capturing animals
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
-Dr. Desmond Morris
-Dr. Desmond Morris
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
-Mahatma Gandhi
-Mahatma Gandhi
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.
-Tu Fu
-Tu Fu
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