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“I am a battery hen. I live in a cage so small I cannot stretch my wings. I am forced to stand night and day on a sloping wire mesh floor that painfully cuts into my feet. The cage walls tear my feathers, forming blood blisters that never heal. The air is so full of ammonia that my lungs hurt and my eyes burn and I think I am going blind. As soon as I was born, a man grabbed me and sheared off part of my beak with a hot iron, and my little brothers were thrown into trash bags as useless alive. My mind is alert and my body is sensitive and I should have been richly feathered. In nature or even a farmyard I would have had sociable, cleansing dust baths with my flock mates, a need so strong that I perform 'vacuum' dust bathing on the wire floor of my cage. Free, I would have ranged my ancestral jungles and fields with my mates, devouring plants, earthworms, and insects from sunrise to dusk. I would have exercised my body and expressed my nature, and I would have given, and received, pleasure as a whole being. I am only a year old, but I am already a 'spent hen.' Humans, I wish I were dead, and soon I will be dead. Look for pieces of my wounded flesh wherever chicken pies and soups are sold.”

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Author:Karen Davis
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“The ten billion animals that are killed every year for meat and the virulent consequences of contemporary animal agricultural practices remain conspicuously absent from public discourse. How often have you seen media exposés on the violent treatment of farm animals and the corrupt practices of carnistic industry? Compare this with the amount of coverage afforded fluctuating gas prices or Hollywood fashion blunders. Most of us are more outraged over having to pay five cents more for a gallon of gas than over the fact that billions of animals, millions of humans, and the entire ecosystem are systematically exploited by an industry that profits from such gratuitous violence. And most of us know more about what the stars wore to the Oscars than we do about the animals we eat.”

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Book:Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
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“For most women (as for most men) links between sexism and speciesism are not readily apparent. We have been conditioned not to see exploitation. For example, men generally have no idea how patriarchy affects women—unless they go out of their way to learn. The same is true for women with regard to cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys. Both women and nonhuman animals have traditionally been viewed as property—"things” to be owned and controlled by those in power. While the plight of women is linked with that of nonhuman animals through a single system of oppression, through their comparative powerlessness and invisibility, and through sexual exploitation, it is important to elucidate these similarities through concrete examples. Links between women and nonhuman animals are nowhere more apparent than through the vulnerabilities of mothers and their young, and the control of pregnancies and offspring; this particular form of oppression is nowhere more blatant than on factory farms.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
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“El Papa me miró y me sonrió. Su mirada estaba llena de cordialidad y amor, y sentí que estaba en la presencia de un hombre santo, un verdadero hijo de la Bienaventurada Madre. Por entonces, ya había empezado a reconocer algo especial en los ojos de las personas que amaban a Nuestra Señora, una ternura que sólo la Madre puede transmitir. Lo vi en el Papa Juan Pablo II de una manera más fuerte de lo que lo había visto jamás en otra persona.”

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Book:My Heart Will Triumph
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“Nuestras palabras solas no pueden cambiar a los que no creen. Únicamente podemos marcar una diferencia con nuestras oraciones y ejemplo, y sólo si tenemos amor en nuestros corazones: «Cuando rezáis por ellos, rezáis por vosotros y por vuestro futuro». Cuando rezamos no tenemos que hacerlo pidiendo lo que nosotros deseamos: Dios sabe todo lo que hay en nuestros corazones y Él conoce lo que es bueno para nosotros a largo plazo, hablando desde un punto de vista eterno, desde luego. Debemos rezar por nuestros hermanos y hermanas. Cada vez que rezamos por alguien que no cree, lo que hacemos es, fundamentalmente, secar una lágrima en el rostro de la Virgen. A través de la oración descubrimos el plan de Dios para nuestras vidas.”

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Author:Mirjana Soldo
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