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We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth.

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

Does veganism require a "sacrifice"? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
a single death. Please go vegan.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.

When it comes to animals, we suffer from moral schizophrenia.

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.