Hunting Is A Sickness

The eye is the window of the soul.
The animals look for man’s intentions right into his eyes.
( Hiram Powers )

Most people don’t question their habit of eating animals, as they have been brought up to believe it is normal behaviour.
But causing suffering should never be considered normal.
( Benjamin Zephaniah )

Never forget there is no such thing as ‘humane slaughter’.
I never saw an animal clicking its heels going to the slaughter-house.
There is always fear in their eyes.
They know exactly what’s going to happen.
So for anyone to claim there is such a thing as ‘humane slaughter’, well. that’s the greatest oxymoron in the world.
( Howard Lyman, cattle rancher turned vegan and activist )

If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured.
Then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.
( Moby )

Hounds Are The “Other Victims Of Fox Hunting”.

Hounds showing signs of weakness are shot in the head or clubbed to death while tiny, week-old puppies are executed if they are not considered strong enough.
As well as the foxes being ripped apart, thousands of hounds will also be slaughtered.

Former huntswoman turned anti-hunt campaigner Lynn Sawyer revealed it was seen as “normal” to shoot and incinerate dogs once they were no longer “productive”.
She said: “The hounds are very much the other victims. With every fox hunt that goes ahead, hounds are at risk of dying too.”

Lynn said any dogs showing signs of weakness were shot in the head or clubbed to death, sometimes at half their life expectancy.
Week-old puppies are also killed if they are not considered strong enough to join the 200 packs across Britain.

Clifford Pellow, another ex-hunter, claimed hounds were often tortured for chasing the wrong scent.
Pellow said: “I have seen hounds being whipped quite frequently. They wallop them with a whip crop. The hounds flinch, yelp and cower.”
( Tom Parry, 14.07.2015 )  ..  mirror.co.uk

Hounds Pulled A Pregnant Fox From Her Den And Ripped Her Apart, The Hunt Master Then Put The Heel Of His Boot On Three Pups That Had Been Inside The Mother And Crushed Them.

A former fox hunter disgusted by the sport is leading the fight to block its return.
With 23 years of hunts behind him involving the horrific deaths of more than 2,000 foxes, ­there is little Clifford Pellow does not know about the bloodsport.

So that makes the 72-year-old former professional huntsman ideally placed to lift the lid on the full disgusting barbarity of hunting with hounds.
Clifford, who turned his back on his livelihood after becoming sickened by the brutal methods used to ensure foxes were ripped to bits, is now leading the fight to block Tory plans to bring back the banned country sport.

Speaking of his own experiences as a huntsman, Clifford said: “The things we were doing to foxes was just ­unbelievable. We would put them in sacks. We tied them up by the legs and dragged them across the fields to leave a scent. It was absolutely disgusting. In the end I got sick of all the gross cruelty and all the killing. On one occasion we had a live fox in a sack which we tipped out in the field, but before it was tipped out they allowed the hounds to bite into the sack.”

Clifford, of Newport, South Wales, told of one truly horrendous moment when hounds pulled a pregnant fox from her den and ripped it apart. Afterwards, the hunt master put the heel of his boot on the three squirming pups that had been inside her and crushed them.

Clifford said: “Another time they dragged a fox across a couple of fields into a dry ditch before flinging the rope over a branch of a tree. They hoisted it up, and then let it drop a bit so the hounds could bite it. They kept doing this to work the hounds up. In the end they just dropped it into the pack of hounds.”

Clifford also said: “They don’t mention the fact they shoot dead the hounds when they are seven or eight years old. There is no love lost. They shoot them with no more feeling than shooting a rat. It’s not just foxes that suffer.”
( Daily Mirror, 13.07.2015 )  ..  mirror.co.uk

‘Sport’ hunting is a sickness, a perversion and a danger and should be recognised as such.
People who get their ‘amusement’ from hunting and killing defenceless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder.
In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it’s detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive.
( Sir Roger Moore )

For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same.
As one dies, so dies the other.
They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
( Ecclesiastes 3:19 )

I Am A Wolf.
It is in my nature to be kind, gentle and loving.
But know this:
When it comes to matters of protecting my family and my friends, do not trifle with me.
For I am also the most powerful and relentless creature you will ever know.
( Wolf Warrior )

I chose to be vegan initially as an animal rights pursuit, as factory farming is barbaric, but have since become convinced that living vegan is not only the most compassionate and ecologically responsible way to live, but also the most healthy.
( Woody Harrelson )

Animals, like us, are living souls.
They are not things.
They are not objects.
Neither are they human.
Yet they mourn.
They love.
They dance.
They suffer.
They know the peaks and chasms of being.
( Gary Kowalski )

I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs.
But I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.
( Bill Murray )

I’m Sorry We Couldn’t Save You.
I’m sorry nobody else tried to save you.
I’m sorry people think their appetite is more important than your life.
I’m sorry other people think it’s more important to be polite and friendly to those responsible than to stand up for you.
I’m sorry that the whole world failed you.
( Rose Winfold )

Life is life’s greatest gift.
Guard the life of another creature as you would your own.
On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
( Lloyd Biggle, Jr. )

Few people fully realise the wealth of sympathy, kindness, loyalty and generosity hidden in the soul of a dog.
( Rose Winfold )

Sick of all this so called culture crap.
It is callous cruelty, nothing else.
( Anne Moffat )

Within the prison walls of every cage are tortured souls with empty eyes and broken spirits.
( Eileen Hutchison, 1926-2008 )

One third of all crops grown go to animal feed.
A statistic that means we can’t feed the world if maintained.
But could if we didn’t eat meat.
( Charlie O’Malley )

There is no such thing as “humane slaughter” like there is no such thing as humane rape, humane slavery and humane child molestation.
How in the world could slaughtering billions of innocents be done with love, humanity and concern?
Cultures might excuse and ignore certain victims of cruelty but that doesn’t exonerate the cruel act, especially from the victim’s point of view.
Which is the only thing that matters.
( Gary Yourofsky )

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.
( L.M. Montgomery )

Let me say it openly.
We are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.
( J.M. Coetzee )

There is a strange distinction for many people and also for the law between different kinds of animals.
In most countries it would be illegal to raise cats and dogs for meat or fur.
Other intelligent animals like pigs, cows and mink don’t have this privilege.
Why is that?
How can people say they love animals and still eat meat?
Are these people all psychos?
Are we surrounded by zombies?
Would all these people kill animals themselves in order to eat their meat?
( Owl Warrior )

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans.
( Gary Steiner )

Eating meat is something you do to somebody else’s body without their consent.
( Pattrice Jones )

As I learned about the consequences of my food choices and as I recognised that I didn’t have to eat animals, and that eating animals caused the animals to suffer, it caused an enormous footprint on our planet, and it wasn’t healthy, it made sense to go vegan.
And, it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I think most people who’ve decided to go vegan share a similar experience.
( Gene Baur )