It’s Coming Face-To-Face With The Darker Side Of Humanity And Trying To Remain Hopeful

The holocaust never ended, it switched species.
( Sean Watson )

No mother willingly hands over her own child’s milk at that child’s fatal expense.
( Sabrina Lee )

The real struggle in being vegan doesn’t involve food.
It’s coming face-to-face with the darker side of humanity and trying to remain hopeful.
( Nick Bean )

Being vegan is not the key to immortality.
We are all going to get sick and die.
But to know you’re living without harming.
That’s the loveliest feeling.
( Victoria Moran )

Eat the goodness of the garden.
Not the sickness and suppuration of the slaughterhouse.
( Mark Thomas White )

Lamb Is What It Sounds Like, A Baby Or Juvenile Sheep.
Lamb in the UK is called lamb if it’s killed and marketed in the year of its birth (or in the year following its birth if the lamb is born after 30 September).
Over 15 million sheep are slaughtered every year in the UK, around half are lambs.
Sheep have a natural lifespan of between 10-12 years.
( Rose Winfold )

You will never understand the pain and the misery and the suffering you caused until exactly the same is done to you.
That’s why I’m here.
( Karma )

What makes you think your life is more important than the life of any animal?
Is it because they can’t speak your language?
Is it because you think you are far superior to them?
Well?
What’s the reason?
Why is your life so important and their life isn’t?
( Rose Winfold )

Why are we hiding the suffering of animals from our children?
Why are we not teaching our children to be kind and compassionate and help towards the ending of suffering?
( Fred O. Wilson )

When people munch on burgers and hotdogs and think nothing of the animals that suffered and died for their eating habits, and then expect you to believe they care about animals.
The word “hypocrite” comes to mind.
( Doris Fenlow )

A Bloody Stain On Our Civilisation.
There may only be 20,000 lions left in the whole of Africa.
Almost 2,000 rhino were poached in South Arica in 2015.
Yet it is possible for a tiny, wealthy elite to travel to Africa and kill hundreds of elephants, lions and rhinos, the world’s rarest and most iconic wild animals, legally and for fun.
Trophy hunters rob the rest of us of our shared wildlife heritage.
It is time for a practise that leaves a bloody stain on our civilisation to end.
( Will Travers, President of Born Free, April 2016 )

It’s been months since an animal has had to die so that I could eat a meal and I feel smug as shit about it to be honest.
( Mark Hoppus )

Don’t talk to me about peace and non-violence when there’s a dead animal on your dinner plate.
( Colleen Polito )

Verily, there is heavenly reward for every act of kindness done to a living animal.
( Prophet Muhammad )

Fear Allah in your treatment of animals.
( Abu Dawood )

When you have no respect for one species you have no respect for any species.
( Rose Winfold )

Cows do think and have emotions.
I worked in the largest slaughterhouse on the planet, Iowa Beef, now Tyson Foods.
We killed 200 cattle an hour.
They would weep, crying with big tears, trembling with fear.
Cows have emotions, just like your dog or cat.
( Ex-slaughterhouse worker )

Too many people claim, or pretend, to know the mind of the Lord.
Too many people use words from the Bible, the authors of which were humans, to not only excuse and justify their own behaviour, but to excuse and justify the killing of any animal they choose.
( Rose Winfold )

Is it because someone lied to you and told you it’s normal to kill and butcher animals, and you don’t have a mind to think for yourself?
( Wilfred Soon )

We all made a grave mistake.
We trusted you.
And not only did you betray us, you make us suffer before brutally killing us.
What cruel, nasty, pieces of shit you are.
Humankind really are the worst kind.
( The Animals )

An Obese American Shooting An African Elephant.
The excitement they experience when they murder an unarmed animal is entirely due to their deep feelings of inadequacy and impotence in ordinary life.
So they try to compensate for this sense of inferiority by shooting something much stronger and braver than they are.
I once watched a documentary about an obese American shooting an African elephant.
As the elephant sank slowly to the ground, the American announced that it was ‘the most gratifying moment of my life’.
We all felt nothing but contempt.
Since the reason to bring a trophy back is to show off to other people how ‘manly’ and ‘exciting’ you are, banning trophies would immediately remove this disgusting motive.
( John Cleese )

Going vegetarian can prevent, and sometimes reverse, our nation’s biggest killers, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and strokes.
Muscle your way to better health.
( Michael Clarke Duncan )

I picked her up and ran to the shelter of nearby trees, applied a tourniquet to her injured leg and called the medics.
I stayed with her constantly.
She had saved my life on so many occasions, I had to make sure that I was there for her.
( Corporal Juan Rodriquez on saving VC war dog Lucca after a roadside bomb )

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.
( Arthur Schopenhauer )

You call me vermin, destructive and dangerous.
Yet you humans have managed to destroy entire eco-systems, pollute the ocean, and hunted other species into extinction.
( Sally the Fox )

We Are Eating Cruelty.
When we eat animal products, we are directly consuming high blood pressure, stress, and adrenaline.
We are eating fear, grief, and rage.
We are eating suffering, horror, and murder.
We are eating cruelty.
If you don’t like animals being hurt and killed.
Stop paying people to hurt and kill them.
Deceiving the ignorant masses that we have animal welfare and that ‘farm’ animals are treated ‘humanely’ is simply a ploy by the blood-soaked ‘meat’ industry and its wealthy shareholders to continue making money from the simple-minded, meat-eating population.
( Rose Winfold )

It’s okay to feel sad or angry, but it’s not okay to ignore or turn away from animal abuse and cruelty.
( Rose Winfold )