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  • Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.
  • We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.208, Penguin UK
  • Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  • At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

    Attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 2009.
  • When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.
  • I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

  • I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

    Book   Animal   America  
    "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.
  • Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."

    Laughter   Men   Animal  
  • Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  • If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

  • The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

    "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.
  • Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

    Fun   Animal   World  
    "Jared Leto and Ellen Page Named Sexiest Vegetarians". www.eonline.com. June 26, 2014.
  • The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kindness  
  • While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

    Hatred   Meat   Vegan  
  • China is now urging citizens to eat less meat. Factory farming comes with immense costs to a society, and Chinese leaders are starting to recognize its implications for water use, the efficient use of grains and other food resources, and human health concerns.

    Water   Leader   Chinese  
    "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.
  • So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

    Laughter   Animal   Men  
  • What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

    Dog   Nature   Greatness  
  • I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

  • Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

    Thinking   Animal   World  
  • If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

    Wall   Food   Health  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

    "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.
  • Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.

    "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
  • Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

    Doe   World   Causes  
  • If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

  • Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

    "Dispatch: Living the Farm Sanctuary Life With Gene Baur" by Miriam Ava, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.
  • I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

    School   College   Animal  
    "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.
  • Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

    Animal   Evil   Needs  
    Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.289, Souvenir Press
  • We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

    Animal   America   Rights  
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