No Animal Is So Cruel As Man

The vegan considers the abolition of the slaughter-house as a reform of the first importance in the reconstruction of human society.
For as long as it remains, society has no morality.
( Donald Watson )

The only time I saw pigs were the dead piglets on display in Spanish butchers, or legs of ham in restaurants and bars.
But you’re so disengaged it doesn’t shock you to see their pale soft skin on the counter.
Now I think about it, it shocks me that it didn’t shock me before.
( Dr Pía Spry-Marqués )

People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man.
But that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts.
No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
( Fyodor Dostoyevsky )

Salmon Farming Is Having A Deadly Impact On The Environment.
Dr Richard Luxmoore, senior nature conservation adviser at the National Trust for Scotland, said fish farms were pumping “huge quantities” of organic waste into the sea, making up around 80% of all sewage.
He told a Holyrood committee: “A single fish farm, which currently has a maximum size at the moment of 2,500 tonnes, produces the sewage equivalent of a town twice the size of Oban. So if you added up all of the towns on the west coast, virtually, they are producing the same amount of sewage as one fish farm”.
Jon Gibb, of the Lochaber District Salmon Fishery Board, said mystery diseases in wild fish had led to “rivers full of dead fish”.
( Alistair Grant, 15.03.2018 ) ..   heraldscotland.com

Many people are wholly unconnected to what is on their plate.
They see meat but do not see the slaughter.
( Ruth Owen )

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks.
I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite.
And spit it out.
( Alice Walker )

Pigs Screaming And Climbing Over Each Other As They Are Killed In Gas Chambers.
Industry chiefs and the Government were warned in 2003 the ‘best practice’ model for pig slaughter in the UK leaves the animals ‘kicking out and screaming’ before death after they are forced into ‘gas chambers’ and killed.

Supermarkets including Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and the Co-op continue to sell products advertising the highest standards of welfare for the animals, however, campaigners have suggested that, because of the way in which they die, this is misleading.
Those ‘highest standards’ leave the animals writhing in agony – fifteen years after a government committee pushed for a new method to be brought in.

In 2014 horrendous footage of the animals screaming in an abattoir shocked the nation.
Video clips released by Eyes on Animals showed the pigs scrambling over one another in a bid to escape, as they struggle for breath.

While supermarkets and meat companies advertise the pigs in organic products as having lived freely, they do not disclose on packaging the method used to kill them, which the government’s own advisory body called to be replaced in 2003.
( Zoie O’Brien, 05.08.2018 )  ..  dailymail.co.uk

It’s beyond understanding when the same people who cry when their dog dies of old age will sit down and eat the flesh of young animals who have suffered abuse and pain from the moment they were born and whose life was shortened just so they can have their meal.
( Rose Winfold )

The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
( Robert Cheeke )

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything.
It is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing non-violence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.
( Gary Francione )

The arrogant delusion of superiority and the belief we have a God-given right to decide who lives and who dies.
( Rose Winfold )

Surely wine is vegan, it’s just grapes.
It’s not.
Wine has animal-derived additives from eggs, fish bladders.
And pig trypsin, which is banned in the EU but used in the US, is secreted by the pancreas and used to break down the proteins in wine and clarify the drink.
The less meat we consume overall the less we have for byproducts used in some other way.
We use every little part of the animal and if we’re going to be killing them we might as well.
But if the consumption of meat decreases then we’ll need to find alternatives.
( Dr Pía Spry-Marqués )

When I read of the possible annihilation of the elephant or the whale, or the pouring of oven cleaner or cosmetics into the eyes of live kittens, or the close confinement of pigs and calves in lightless pens, I feel myself confronted by human stupidity, which I recognise as an enemy.
The connection between stupidity and cruelty is a close one.
( Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 )

Thousands Of Animals Shot And Killed On A Dutch “Reserve” To Keep Their Population In Check.
Large grazing animals, including red deer, wild horses and cattle, have been shot in their thousands at a fenced-off Dutch ‘reserve’ to keep their population in check, while activists were prevented from feeding the starving animals, in keeping with “natural” processes.

Due to the lack of food and harsh weather, the population of grazing animals on the reserve plummeted by some 60% this winter.
Thousands of starving grazing animals are packed in a barren-looking area of the reserve, unable to get out to graze somewhere else.

Numerous videos and pictures of malnourished animals prompted local residents and animal activists to feed them, only to be confronted by the police and the reserve rangers, since it’s illegal to feed ‘wild’ animals in the reserve. Offenders, if caught, can face a fine.

While the administration prefers to keep things “natural” in the reserve, the majority of animals perished due to quite unnatural causes.
( RT News, 07.05.2018 )  ..  rt.com

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see.
Death, however ‘humane’, is a harm for humans and non-humans.
( Gary Francione )

The systematic torture of sentient beings, whatever the pretext and in whatever form, cannot achieve anything more than it already has.
To show us what is the lowest point of debasement man can reach.
( Joaquin Phoenix )

In one week, more farmed animals are killed than the total number of people killed in all wars throughout history.
( Melanie Joy )

Eating meat isn’t something humans inherently do.
Isn’t it strange that in the UK we happily scoff pulled pork but not pulled dog?
We’re conditioned by an invisible belief system that encourages us to eat animals which is shared by all meat-eating cultures.
If you think about the millions of different animals out there, we’ve only chosen a few that we class as edible.
The others are seen as disgusting.
Just imagine eating a rat.
( Dr Pía Spry-Marqués )

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people.
Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
( Isaac Bashevis Singer )

So I started thinking to myself, jeez, I’ve always been told nothing but ‘milk does a body good’.
It’s a fundamental thing.
So from there it was like, what else are they lying about?
I just started realising there are all these things we’re brought up to believe that are just a total hoax, just bullshit advertising, you know?
( Woody Harrelson )

Unlike any other animal, you have a choice.
You can choose to kill and destroy, or you can choose to save and create.
I chose the latter.
( Edward Sanchez )

Fox ‘Hunting’ Is Cruelty Dressed Up As Sport.
The pompous, posturing, red-jacketed oafs and the sick cronies who follow them don’t have the dignity of the animals they are chasing.
The barbaric activities of these gangs of posh, rural thugs is unnatural and very disturbing.
It’s cruelty dressed up as sport.

They seem to have a driven, blood-thirsty need and desire to inflict fear and pain on innocent, defenceless animals.
They are, without exception, among the cruellest, most thoughtless, most evil members of our community.
Male ‘hunters’ are invariably impotent and women who ‘hunt’ climb on horses purely for the clitoral stimulation.
( Rose Winfold )

Pay towards the brutal murder of animals.
Ignore their pain and suffering.
Be cruel.
Be selfish.
Be stupid.
Be sick.
( Dion Felsrow )

A prison for animals who committed no crimes is what a zoo is.
( Lamine Pearlheart )

Those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.
A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces, laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps, would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity.
( Robert Ingersoll )