354 Quotes About Animal-rights

If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.

He [Ray] was working in a tool-and-die factory in Brooklyn, but before that had drifted around, had been employed at the Studebaker plant in South Bend and also at an Omaha slaughterhouse on the kill floor. Once I asked him what that was like. "You ever heard of Auschwitz?

There is no requirement that the cows, pigs, or hens who were exploited to create “natural” productsbe treated any different from how other factory farmed animals are treated. Farmed animals who are exploited for “natural” products are not allowed tolive in natural conditions—they are not even allowed to satisfy their most basic natural behaviors.

A prison for animals who committed no crimes is what a zoo is." - On Zoos

There is a famous scene at the beginning of a Star Wars film, where the main character cuts open an animal to climb inside of it to so that he would survive extremely cold weather. People were shocked by this, and they should be. Do they not consider that wearing fur or leather is the same thing?Shenita Etwaroo

Special needs animals need special homes with special hearts in order to take care of them. These animals deserve forever homes, too. It’s so disheartening, how often I see posts for adoptions for a dog or cat that have aged twelve years without ever finding their family because of some perceived defect.Shenita Etwaroo

I'm ... not sure yet. But I've seen Dorfl around. He's always seemed a very gentle person.""It works in a slaughterhouse!""Maybe that's not a bad place for a gentle person to work, sir" said Carrot.

Animal trafficking brings $20 billion, yes, billion with a b, into the United States every year, and that’s why you don’t see tighter regulations, higher fines, heftier punishments. As they say, follow the money.Shenita Etwaroo

These hands have been given to us not for slaughter but to save!