Inspiration

„Non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as co-operation with good.

„The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

„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. 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.

„The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use. We owe the animals not mercy but justice.

„Animals—whom we have made our slaves—we do not like to consider our equals.

„There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.

„If modern civilised man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

„Man dominates nature before he has learned to dominate himself.

„Meat-eating is a survival of the greatest barbarism.

„Nutrition experts have long since stopped debating whether meat is essential to the diet. They agree that it is not. If people today commonly doubt that they can do without meat, those doubts spring from ignorance.