“Veganism… is a principle – that man has no right to exploit the creatures for his own ends – and no variation occurs. Vegan diet is therefore derived entirely from ‘fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains and other wholesome non-animal products,’ and excludes ‘flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey and animal milk and its derivatives.’ In a vegan [...]
…the taste that we prize in animal foods is like the sex we would have as rapists, for the prostitute may at least consent and profit from our cravings, but the animal is always forced against her will to be tortured and killed for our taste and questionable pleasure. When we contemplate our tastes, we [...]
“The ox, as the Greeks used to say, was the poor man’s slave; and even the poorest tinker had a dog at his heels on which to bestow the kick which indicated his superiority.” – Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
“[W]as there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it? There was a time when the division of mankind into two classes, a small one of masters and a numerous one of slaves, appeared, even to the most cultivated minds, to be a natural, and the only natural, condition of [...]