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“Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.”

“We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.”

Way Important Faces Found Animal Hell Industry Important Things Misery Torture Cream Laboratory Vegetarianism Lipstick Multinationals Food Industry

Author:David Oderberg

“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”

Thinking Given Animal Circumstances Misery Response Unbearable Disturbed Zoos Prozac

Author:Germaine Greer

“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”

Animal Slavery Misery

Book:George Orwell's Animal Farm

Source: George Orwell's Animal Farm

“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Mind Body Seems Animal Poverty Atheism Misery Positive Atheism Naked Cruelty Animal Cruelty Sunbathing

Book:The Story of Julian

Source: The Story of Julian

“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”

Men Heart Understanding Animal Grief Sadness Serious Habit Reflection Misery Grieving

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.”

Men Feels Moments Helping Together Opportunity Speak Animal Existence Responsibility Trouble Horror Ethics Misery Reverence Prompts Reverence For Life Recompense

Author:Albert Schweitzer