{"quotes":[{"text":"By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. But would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","convenience","human-rights","opposition","oppression","peace","profit","religion","suffering"],"id":154,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"There was a young lady called Peaches,who simply loved animals to pieces.She ate pigs and sheep,and for cows she would weep,when baked in a sauce of rich greases.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","hypocrisy","limerick","vegan-limerick","vegan-poem","vegan-poetry","veganism"],"id":3209,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer's and Regan's theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer's utilitarian theory and Regan's rights approach are developed within a framework of patriarchal norms, which includes the subordinatin of emotion to reason, the privileging of abstract principles of conduct, the perception of ethical discussion as a battle between adversaries, and the presumption that ethics shoudl function as a means of social control.","author":"Brian Luke","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","feminism"],"id":55288,"author_id":"Brian+Luke"},{"text":"It is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of respectable medical research. And nobody on the outside knows, or wants to know, or is willing to find out. My parents, my friends, my teachers, wouldnt listen to me, or suggested that if it was bothering me that much I just had to quit the job. Just like that. As if that would have solved anything. As if I could ever live with such cowardice. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, how many people are convinced - without knowing the first thing about it - Animal research is essential. Americans have been hopelessly brainwashed on this issue. The animal rights people, by and large, acknowledge the essential futility of trying to change the system. So they address the smaller issues, fighting for legislation which would provide one extra visit per week to the labs by a custodian of the US dept of agriculture. Or demanding that a squirrel monkey be given an extra 12 square inches in his holding pen, before being led to the slaughter. That sort of thing. For whomever, and whatever it's worth, I hope my little write up is clear. I dont have the guts to do whats necessary. I pray there's someone out there who does. God help all of us.","author":"Michael Tobias","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","animal-testing","ethical-living","science","vegan","vegetarian","vivisection"],"id":58943,"author_id":"Michael+Tobias"},{"text":"It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-liberation","animal-rights","animal-stories","beatdom","environmentalism","ignorance","shapeshifters","werewolves","witch-hunts","wolves","zeena-schreck"],"id":109816,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an 'environmentalist.' You are a rank hypocrite.","author":"Will Hazlitt","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-liberation-front","animal-rights","environmentalism","meat","media","philosophy","vegan"],"id":203245,"author_id":"Will+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For just as when slavery is deeply set into the psyche of a nation, those crying for slave welfare and not abolitionism, argue in favour of slavery and exploitation, and thus push eventual abolitionism further into the future.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["abolitionism","animal-liberation","animal-rights","animal-welfare","crying","exploitation","psyche-of-a-nation","slavery","vegan","veganism"],"id":276829,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"In so far as the purported use of 'violence' by the Animal Liberation Front in the furtherance of its fundamental mission is concerned; The fact of the matter is that violence cannot be committed against an inanimate object.","author":"Will Hazlitt","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-liberation-front","animal-rights","media","philosophy","will-hazlitt"],"id":333438,"author_id":"Will+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-totem","animism","death","deity-yoga","freedom","gods","gods-and-warriors","illusion","impermanence","left-hand-path","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","martial-art-training","materialism-versus-spiritualism","plant-spirits","reality","sacred-travel","self-identity","shamanic","shamanic-healing","shamanism","shamanism-healing","shapeshifter","spirit-possession","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","taboo-breaking","taboos","tai-chi","tai-chi-chuan","tantra","tantric-buddhism","totemism","vamamarga","zeena-schreck"],"id":361823,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","animals","vegan"],"id":362726,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}