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In every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual "taste"... [is] produce[d by the de...

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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to ...

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If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...

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

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Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassion...

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We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...

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

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

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

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

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

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Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps...

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

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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...

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Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

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Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture ...

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I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a resu...

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People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all c...

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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on w...

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...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

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As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

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This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certai...

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Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it i...

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Peter SingerEthics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...

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The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a ma...

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Albert SchweitzerThe Animal World of Albert Schweitzer

I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusement...

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