“Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink the milk of another species (enslaved cows and goats), and we have come to consider it normal when, it is actually a pretty perverse form of sexual abuse!” HumansFormHuman BeingsBabyDrinkNormalAbuseSpeciesMilkCowsAdulthoodGoatsDrink Milk Author:Sharon Gannon
“As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.” HumansMayHas BeensProcessAnimalEatingPlantLifetimeFleshOver ItPlusConsumedInjuredLiving OnNutrients Author:Sharon Gannon
“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.” IfsWorldHumansHas BeensEnoughTodayUsedWaterAnimalAmountTenPercentRaisesRaisedExtraordinaryHungryMeatFedsVegetablesGrainDestinedStarvingCropsWorld TodaySlaughterLivestock Author:Sharon Gannon
“Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.” YearsHumansAnimalHalfLandGreenPlantAverageEightNineMeatVegetarianCowsConsumptionCornCropsAcresSoybeansGreen Plants Author:Sharon Gannon
“The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!” HumansEndsBodyLinesHuman BeingsAnimalNumbersBloodDiseaseDuesFatsVesselThighsArteriesButtocksBlood Vessels Author:Sharon Gannon
“Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.” WantNeedsHumansProblemEarthGrowthResourcesPopulationPopulation GrowthNeeds And WantsHuman Population Author:Sharon Gannon
“Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.” HumansProblemBigsGrowthGreaterEatingPopulationMeatOverconsumptionPopulation GrowthHuman PopulationMeat Eating Author:Sharon Gannon
“Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.” WantFeelsHumansUsePurposeAnimalQualityConcernedTreatedSlaughter Author:Sharon Gannon
“It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.” FeelsHumansLooksHas BeensSoulSelfFeelingsPainTogetherHuman BeingsAnimalConsciousnessSupportRightsEmotionalMoralityEthicsSpeciesObsessionLook UpConsiderationHierarchyDeservingCognitiveLumpsSelf ConsciousnessHuman SpeciesPhysical PainSpeciesismMorality And Ethics Author:Sharon Gannon
“All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.” HumansSpiritualAnimalBreatheBreathingVegetarianCarnivores Author:Sharon Gannon
“The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.” HumansForceHuman BeingsAnimalPlanetsEatingGreedBillionsDestructiveFragileOur PlanetEcosystems Author:Sharon Gannon
“It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.” KnowsHumansMayHas BeensActionPastSufferingEnjoyHuman BeingsAnimalResultsJudgingBirthEatingDirectMeatFarmsFactoriesEnjoy LifeMeat Eating Author:Sharon Gannon
“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.” WorldWayHumansWarSpiritualFormSufferingCausesWaterAnimalPovertyAirEmotionalDiseaseRootsTreatsCleanStarvationHuman SufferingRoot CauseClean AirAir And Water Author:Sharon Gannon
“By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.” HumansSufferingCausesAnimalLevelsAlleviateHuman Suffering Author:Sharon Gannon
“Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.” IfsShouldHumansMeanDiesHuman BeingsAnimalMeatLionsContrastPhysiological Author:Sharon Gannon
“There are many activities that human beings have been doing "forever." We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be allowed to continue. Men have been raping women for thousands of years; does that mean that it is normal and should be allowed to continue?” MenShouldYearsHumansMeanDoeHas BeensMightHuman BeingsForeverPerspectiveActivityNormalEatingArguingMeatEating Meat Author:Sharon Gannon
“Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.” ShouldHumansMeanLongDoeHas BeensWarHuman BeingsEnvironmentHabitLong TimeDestroyingWaging WarDestroying The Environment Author:Sharon Gannon
“Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.” HumansCompassionDogTypeEssentialsBirdCat Author:Sharon Gannon
“Human beings are Earthlings and as Earthlings are connected to every other living being on this planet.” HumansHuman BeingsPlanetsConnected Author:Sharon Gannon
