79 Quotes About Animal-liberation
- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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In the racist, sexist United States, nonwhite racialized minorities—and women in particular—are subjected to more than their share of horrific violence, but no human being would wish to trade places with nonhuman animals in factory farms or laboratories. . . .The legal status of women and nonwhite racializedminorities has improved markedly in the past fifty years; matters have grown considerably worse for nonhuman animals.
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- Author Will Hazlitt
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If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.
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- Author Will Hazlitt
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In so far as the purported use of "violence" by the Animal Liberation Front in the furtherance of its fundamental mission is concerned; The fact of the matter is that violence cannot be committed against an inanimate object.
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- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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A lack of concern about the plight of a “breeding” sow on a factory farm is also a result of normative systematic oppression – speciesism.
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- Author Sunaura Taylor
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Unless disability and animal justice are incorporated into our other movements for liberation, ableism and anthropocentrism will be left unchallenged, available for use by systems of domination and oppression.
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- Author Aph Ko
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Animal' is a category that we shove certain bodies into when we want to justify violence against them, which is why animal liberation should concern all who are minoritized. As long as animals are oppressed, as long as 'animal' means something degrading, we will never be set free.
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- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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Most consumers are unaware of the ongoing, intense suffering and billions of premature deaths that lurk behind mayonnaise and cream, cold cuts and egg sandwiches.
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- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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Women and other animals are exploited for their reproductive abilities, and both are devalued as they age and wear out – when they are no longer able to reproduce.
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- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.
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