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“Bad faith is the devil's practice; it leads only to hell, not anywhere else.”

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“By creating a false distinction between "good" and "bad" forms of animal exploitation and violence, the animal industry has convinced the public that there is nothing wrong with animal agriculture, per se, only with the way it is practiced. However, it isn't just the animal industry that has a stake in this. Capitalists and consumers, conservatives and liberals, small-scale farmers and corporate industrial farms alike all wish to re-"naturalize" animal husbandry as a permanent, benignant fixture of the human condition. The new hoax of "humane" meat is thus a convenience for all, a way to neutralize animal advocacy and to fend off the bad conscience of society." - The Humane Hoax”

Ethics Animal Rights Animal Welfare Speciesism Animal Agriculture Critical Theory Bad Faith Human Supremacy Critical Animal Studies

Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“We need to stop talking about "factory farming." The problem is violence against animals. People will continue eating industrialized meat as long as they believe the myth that there is a "humane" alternative: "humane killing" discourse serves to legitimate the whole meat system.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“The utilitarian-inflected discourse on animal "suffering" is the wrong point of emphasis. We need to talk instead about the fundamental causes of that suffering: human domination, exploitation, and mass killing of nonhuman animals. The problem isn't "suffering"; it's us.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“Every significant philosopher of the last 2500 years has claimed that only humans are free, only humans have an ontological capacity for freedom. That is a lie. The condition for the possibility of freedom is merely the condition for the possibility of unfreedom.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“The reason that we treat other animals as our slaves and as commodities isn't because they have this ontologically-rooted inferiority, it's that we see them as inferiors 'because' we find it useful to exploit them, and to harm them.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”

Book:The Priory of the Orange Tree

Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree

“We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.”

Political Faith Spirituality Christianity Self Help Jesus Christ Trusting God Eastern Orthodoxy

Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

“Let's all agree to stop using words like "pups," "kits," "chicks," "calves," etc., when referring to the young of other species. They are children. To use any other term is to reinforce the ideology of "otherness" that allows us to go on killing nonhuman animals with impunity.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“All human culture is narcissistic: being based in the violent negation and exclusion of all other forms of animal life, it collapses into toxic self-love. It thus inevitably destroys its own object, too, i.e. itself, because genuine love requires an Other.”

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Author:John Sanbonmatsu

“What does it mean to be human, when we've organized our whole identity, our whole economy, around harming our fellow creatures?”

Ethics Animal Rights Animals Animal Welfare Factory Farming Speciesism Animal Agriculture Bad Faith Human Supremacy Critical Animal Studies

Author:John Sanbonmatsu