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“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help pr...”
“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief th...”
“I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.”
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.”
“Embrace compassion without exception.”
“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 th...”
“Roaches should never trust humans. We’re all doomed.”
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”