“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsSaidStillsBookHelpingStoriesWould BeCausesAnimalCareersStrangeReturnOfficeDoctorsWelfareMy TimeVolunteerAnimal WelfareVeterinarianStrange Stories Author:James Rollins
“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.” IfsWayProblemWould BeHouseAnimalCompanyDogCatTreatedWelfareIllegalFarmsFactoriesSlaughterAnimal WelfareImpunity Author:Bruce Friedrich
“There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.” WorldLooksNamesAnimalModernBurningWelfareStakesAnimal RightsAnimal WelfareVivisectionAnimal TestingBurning At The Stake Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken - So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals?I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantUseHappensCareBlackHurtAnimalPayPracticeCasesWorstCallingMessagesBirdAbuseRaisesAfrican AmericanWelfareRestaurantsUnderdogAnimal WelfareSloppyBoycottPetaKfc Author:Bill Vaughan
“I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.” IfsCertainNextRealizingAnimalIssuesEnvironmentGenerationsConcernedImpactCriticalWelfareNext GenerationAnimal WelfareThis Generation Author:Michael Pollan
“Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.” HumansSocialAnimalClearPolicyDrinkAbsolutesPopulationWelfareBritainNativeFree WillScrewsChunksSocial Welfare Author:Ann Coulter
“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!” InspirationalBelieveSoulMotivationalEyeAnimalBehindsDogCatWelfarePetLuminousAnimal WelfareAnimal LovePet AnimalsFunny CatGreat PetInspirational DogInspirational AnimalKindness To AnimalsAnimal LoverCat LoverPets CatsInspirational CatCute CatCat Eye Author:Theophile Gautier
“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men” MenAnimalCryFieldsForestsWitnessWelfareBeastAnimal RightsScornAnimal WelfareDensAnimal LifeSoullessWildlife Animals Author:William Inge
“Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.” MenMindSoulFeelingsGovernmentFallSinAnimalPowerfulPrinciplesGreatnessDivineCreaturesFellowsNobleSelfishSelfishnessWelfareDimensionsPrimitiveDivine LoveRetiredForsakenSmallness Author:Jonathan Edwards
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.” HumansChildrenLittlesSeemsYoungMotherAnimalRaceBrotherHusbandFemaleResponsibleSpeciesMalesDelightPeacefulWelfareHuman RaceThoughtfulCombatMockYoung Children Author:Margaret Mead
“In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.” UseProblemAnimalOpinionObjectsAbuseCrueltyWelfareHittingTypicalTruckDeliberateFrequencyTransportationAnimal WelfarePhysical AbuseLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.” KnowsKindTwoCareAnimalBoysGenerationsSweetWelfareVeganImpressedTeenageAnimal WelfareThis GenerationOutspokenMiley Author:Pamela Anderson