The following is a selection of quotes from Gail Eisnitz’s groudbreaking work Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry “These hogs get up to the scalding tank, hit the water and start screaming and kicking. Sometimes they thrash so much they kick water out of the tank… [...]
The following is an excerpt from Friend or Food? Pets, Meat, and the Fragmentation of Empathy by Dr Matthew Cole When we think about ‘food animals’ (if we think about them at all), we usually think of them as an undifferentiated, indistinct mass, as objects, commodities, food-in- waiting. When we think of pets, we usually [...]
Excerpted from The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle Fundamentally, cow’s milk is a substance designed by nature for baby cows, not for humans. We are the only species that drinks the milk intended for the young of other species, and we are the only species that insists on drinking milk beyond the time of [...]
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Phil Wollen of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trustt. “I was a merchant banker whose favourite meal was filet mignon and lobster. Many years ago I was mandated to act for a large corporate client and visited one of their main subsidiaries. It turned out to be [...]
Some people say, “Just because I eat meat, it doesn’t mean I’m not a peaceful or compassionate person.” But a peaceful life cannot be built on a foundation of violence. And nothing ‘compassionate’ ever came from a slaughterhouse.” – J. Tyler Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
The following essay is from Logos Journal issue 4.2 Where does all the war, racism, terrorism, violence, and cruelty that’s so endemic to human civilization come from? Why do humans exploit and massacre each other so regularly? Why is our species so violence-prone? To answer these questions we would do well to think about our [...]
It has been over a year since I opened the local newspaper that serves my community in western New Hampshire and noticed the headline “Good ‘Til the Last Drop.” The article was all about Billie, an 11-year old dairy cow. She’d outlived most exploited dairy cows by at least six years, and for this reason [...]
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Did you like this? Share it:Tweet