Sentience Quotes

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conceptio...

Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were...

Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there i...