Nothing On Earth Is More Violent Or Extreme Than The Meat Industry

I’d like to see my children grow up in a country where animals are treated with respect, not as objects of ridicule.
Allowing circuses with wild animals to continue sends the message that it’s okay to dominate animals and ignore pain and suffering.
( Martin Freeman )

Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all.
Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches.
From it every creature was fed.
( Daniel 4 : 12, The Bible )

Meat should be treated in the same way as tobacco, with campaigns to stop people eating it.
( Kerry McCarthy )

To satisfy the masses, ‘humane’ is a word regularly used by those who abuse and slaughter gentle animals.
( Rose Winfold )

Animals may not understand our words, but they can feel their warmth and sincerity.
( Florence Emily Hookins, 1896-1962 )

One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ.
Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.
( Pope Francis )

If cutting the throats of millions of enslaved animals every day is permissible by God, then what horrible things could the Devil possibly do to animals?
( Rose Winfold )

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm.
The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.
( Charles M. Blow )

The life of every creature is its blood.
You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood.
Anyone who eats it must be cut off.
( Leviticus 17 : 14, The Bible )

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practise.
According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
( Isaac Bashevis Singer )

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance.
There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
( John Henry Newman )

You either approve of violence or you don’t.
And nothing on Earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
( Morrissey )

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
That’s the single most important thing you can do.
It’s staggering when you think about it.
Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot.
Ecology, famine, cruelty.
( Paul McCartney )

I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday.
Either I could live with that or stop eating meat.
I chose the latter and I am happier for it.
( Carrie Underwood )

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
( Bea Arthur )

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man.
On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
( Maimonides, 1138-1204 )

For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
( Pythagoras, c.570BC – c.495BC )

If you believe God condones the forceful, unnatural breeding of animals just so they can be killed and their bodies sliced into pieces, then the God you glorify is no better than the Devil you condemn.
( Rose Winfold )

I’m not here to please people.
I’m not here to win the support of people.
I’m here to represent my animal relations who are suffering this very second.
And I don’t care what anybody says about what I do to achieve their freedom.
( T. Berry )

Forget the pig is an animal.
Treat him just like a machine in a factory.
( John Byrnes, Hog Farm Management trade journal )

I despise ‘animal welfare.’
That’s like saying, ‘Let’s beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week’.
( Gary Yourofsky )

We do not have the right to use animals for any real or perceived need, whether it be food, clothing, entertainment, medical issues.
( Janine Motta )

Prior to slaughter, live cattle were hung upside down by a chain attached to one back leg.
It was so horrible I could not stand to watch it.
The frantic bellows of terrified cattle could be heard in both the office and the parking lot.
Sometimes an animal’s back leg was broken during hoisting.
( Dr. Temple Grandin )

Animals are God’s creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God’s sight.
( Rev. Andrew Linzey )

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Everyone who agrees unnecessary animal suffering should be ended must eat no animal food products.
( David J. Cantor )

If the slaughter of animals was ‘humane’ it would be the farmers sharing videos of it and not undercover animal rights activists.
( Rose Winfold )

A man can live and be healthy without killing for food.
Therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
And to act so is immoral.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Compassion will always, in the end, defeat cruelty.
( Lyn White, Animals Australia Chief Investigator )

Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.
( Ingrid Newkirk, November 1983 )

Pigs outsmart dogs and are on the same intellectual level as chimpanzees and even some humans.
( Lori Marino, Neuro-scientist Emory University )

If enough people are determined to stand up to an issue, you know what, it’s gonna get solved.
Saying that human concerns outweigh animal concerns is just more bullshit.
( Chris DeRose )

After all the information I gathered about the mistreatment of animals I couldn’t continue to eat meat.
( Liam Hemsworth )

I’m not interested in what type of diet our ancestors ate, or whether or not God said we could eat animals, or if we can get enough protein from a plant-based diet (which we can).
These are all tired, pathetic excuses to justify unnecessary cruelty and killing.
I just want the human race to move on, evolve, become civilised, and respect every creature we share this planet with.
They all have the same right to be safe and free that we expect for ourselves.
( Rose Winfold )

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week.
Ten thousand entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history.
If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.
( Philip Wollen )