The Problem Is, We As The Human Species, Impose Our Will Upon Every Other Species On The Planet

I don’t have to prove other animals have a soul.
Many have already shown me their soul.
( Anthony Douglas Williams )

Do not make a truce with ‘humane’ animal abuse.
Vegan is the only solution.
( Karen Davis )

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
( Robert Brault )

Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.
( T. Casey Brennan )

Compassion. In which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
( Albert Schweitzer )

If cows were to use their strength against people like the mighty rhino, we wouldn’t be hanging them upside down and cutting their throats.
If pigs used aggression with sledge-hammer mouths like the great hippo, we would leave them alone.
If chickens were feathery Swiss Army knives like the falcon, we wouldn’t be tossing them into cages by the billions.
It is only because they are kind and gentle and trusting in us, that we partake in these malicious acts of violence against them.
What does that say about us?
( Rose Winfold )

All sentient beings should have at least one right.
The right not to be treated as property.
( Gary Francione )

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle.
In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them.
The animals had rights, the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness.
This concept of life and its relations filled us with the joy and mystery of living.
It gave us reverence for all life.
It made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
( Chief Luther Standing Bear )

The Earth is large enough for all to share.
But mankind’s heart is not large enough to care.
( Anthony Douglas Williams )

The human palate for animal products is eating up rainforests, exterminating wild animals and habitats, ruining oceans, hurting birds, fish, and mammals, and supporting slaughter cultures of total sadism.
( Karen Davis )

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage.
A world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be, will be, a human zoo.
( Edward Abbey )

What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines, energising the land?
Will the sunset and dawn mourn the passing of the creatures who danced in their light?
( Sue Arnold )

I believe I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t.
To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it.
The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
( Mark Twain )

Wool-Producing Machines.
Because the market for their skins and fleece is so huge, sheep are simply treated as wool-producing machines.
And because workers are typically paid by volume, rather than by the hour, they work as fast as they can, and this often leads to horrific injuries.
Skin, tails, teats and ears are frequently cut or ripped off during the shearing process.
( Rose Winfold )

When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness.
( Bhagavad Gita )

Wind turbines have led to an 80% fall in protected golden plovers.
( RSPB, April 2016 )

Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment, a piece of meat, an ‘it,’ without degenerating into cruelty towards that creature?
( Karen Davis )

The problem is, we as the human species, impose our will upon every other species on the planet.
( Bob Irwin )

Whenever we encounter wild animals in nature, we must only ever show kindness and compassion.
( Paul Oxton )

The cowards call it ‘hunting’.
An ego boost for a small mind, the feeling of power and dominance, many studies point to being sexually inadequate, a perverted desire to kill the helpless and pose with their corpse, smug-faced, pathetic little men craving attention.
( Rose Winfold )

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice.
So is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
( Victoria Moran )

I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.
( Russell Brand )

In my judgement, the vivisector is to medicine what the pornographer is to art.
( Philip Wollen )

At least five dogs are stolen or go missing every day in the UK.
In the past 12 months, 1,189 dogs were reported stolen and 627 vanished.
( The Sun, 27.05.2016 )

If I am to be a voice for animals, then how should I speak?
Am I to whisper, when they are screaming in pain?
Am I to be calm, when they tremble in fear?
Am I to shout for mercy, as their throats are being slit?
Tell me how I need to speak, for you to grant them their freedom.
( Davegan Raza )

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape.
Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans, or even other animals, including members of the same species, an individual’s pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.
( Marc Bekoff )

The reason a few good folk dedicate themselves to helping animals is because there are so many assholes dedicated to hurting them.
( Wilfred Soon )

If what you eat involves the misery and the suffering of animals, then in what sense are you leading a compassionate life?
( Rose Winfold )

The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our, not their, primary disruption of natural rhythms, and that we owe them more rather than less for having stripped them of their birthright and earth rights has not entered into the environmentalist discussions that I’ve encountered to date.
( Karen Davis )