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“The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.”

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Robert Breault (born 1963) is an American tenor known for his performances in opera, oratorio, and art song. With a warm, lyrical voice, he excels in works by Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi. Breault has performed at leading opera houses worldwide and collaborated with renowned conductors and orchestras. He is also a dedicated educator, serving as a voice professor at the University of Utah. His recordings include several albums of classical and contemporary repertoire, earning critical acclaim. more

“The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.”

People Knows Games Process Forget Animal Creatures Stores Forests Cruelty Animal Rights Hunters Slaughter Butchers Slaughterhouses

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.”

Young Mother Turns Animal Practice Produce Broken Birth Comfort Separation Inevitable Farms Animal Rights Denied Cows Pathetic Organisation Saddest Present Time Dairy Calves Grooming

Author:Ruth Harrison

“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.”

“We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.”

Knows Humans Animal Emotion Evolution Related Animal Rights Traits Ecology Human Emotions Outdated Anthropomorphism

Book:One Earth, One Mind

Source: One Earth, One Mind

“The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.”

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