(humans) “no longer enslave animals for food purposes”
William T Riker, Star Trek, Next Generation
animals
Enlightened?
“You humans claim to be enlightened, yet you still consume the flesh of animals.”
T’Pol, Enterprise
Can we justify killing animals for food?
Four leading thinkers discuss the morality of killing animals in order to eat them.
Read more here.
Graveyard body…
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for
the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
The Devil is a human…
“”We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a Religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”
~ W.R.Inge
I don’t eat my friends…
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
A boundless ethic including animals
“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also.”
Albert Schweitzer, physician/Nobel Laureate
Our Attitudes About Animals Are Changing for the Better
The latest Gallup poll released this week shows our attitudes towards animals are certainly changing, and this year it’s good news because we’re getting more concerned with the ways they’re used and treated.
Read more here.
I’m assuming that there would have been similar results here in the EU.
Common ground…
“Animals, the earth, and humans
all stand on Common Ground.
What hurts one, hurts the others.
What heals and celebrates, does so for all.”
-NEAVS President Theodora Capaldo, EdD
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