“Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness; they are a clear-sighted recognition of connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes between life and social science. Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse.”
Source: Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo
“Thanks to government subsidies, a diet rich in animal products is affordable even though it destroys the earth”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“There is no other industry as cruel and oppressive as factory farming. With regard to numbers affected, extent and length of suffering, and numbers of premature deaths, no other industry can even approach factory farming. Billions of individuals are exploited from genetically engineered birth, through excruciating confinement, to conveyor belt dismemberment. Consequently, there is no industry more appropriate for social justice activists to boycott.”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Diet–a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Many humans would experiment on nonhumans in the hope of saving a loved one, and they would just as readily experiment on humans to sustain that same hope.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.”
Source: The Problem of Pain