Certified 'Humane' & Other Lies

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of

dollars lying to the public about their product.

But no amount of false propaganda can

sanitise meat. The facts are absolutely clear.

Eating animals is bad for human health,

catastrophic for the environment and

a living nightmare for animals.

Chrissie Hynde

Jo Frederiks

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge

but an active aversion to knowledge,

the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,

pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

Consciously or subconsciously, it is with

deliberation that we do not know or fail

to understand - because incomprehension

allows us, with good conscience, to evade

unpleasant responsibilites, because

ignorance is the best excuse for going on

doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley

Most people are not seeking truth - they are

searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that people are brainwashed into

thinking that it's normal to consume animals.

They are so uncomfortable with confronting

what happens to those animals because

they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

COMFORTABLE LIES

Without ever committing an act of outright

evil ourselves, we collude with it

through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

What an amount of suffering the poor creatures

have to endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

If slaughterhouses had glass walls,

everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Think occasionally of the suffering of which

you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

To examine whether something is 'humane',

first determine whether you would

want it done to you.

Andrea Kladar

The horrifying things that are happening

to animals in order for you to keep

eating meat is inhuman.

Lewis Hamilton

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Harold S. Kushner

Highway to Hell

Recognize meat for what it really is:

the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden

corpse of a tortured animal.

Ingrid Newkirk

When the suffering of another creature causes

you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but

on the contrary, come closer, as close

as you can to him who suffers,

and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Animal Holocaust

Auschwitz begins wherever someone

 looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:

they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno

Do you know why so many survivors of

the Holocaust are vegan? Because

they know what it's like to be

treated like an animal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every.Day.

Holocaust victims were treated like animals,

and so logically we can conclude that

animals are treated like Holocaust victims.

Matt Prescott

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy

and disbelieves in those of his own side,

without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell

Jo Frederiks

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an

enterprise of cruelty which rivals anything that

the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it,

in that ours is an enterprise without end,

self-regenerating, bringing animals ceaselessly

into the world for the purpose of killing them.

John Maxwell Coetzee

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

When Will We Ever Learn

Only when we have become non violent

towards all life will we have learned

to live well with others.

César Chávez

'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't

do to us. It's about what we shouldn't do

to others. 'Never again' means that we must

never again perpetrate mass atrocities

against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animals in Entertainment

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies,

bullfights, and crucifixions he has

so far felt best on Earth; and

when he invented hell for himself,

behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jo Frederiks

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

It's clear to anyone with a brain and an ounce

of compassion that marine parks are nothing

more than concrete prisons.

Roger Moore

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

What an amount of suffering and cruel

punishment the poor creatures have to

endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

Land of Ahimsa

All living beings have the spark of the divine

energy; therefore, to hurt another being

is to hurt oneself.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less

precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on

and off at will. Its seat is in the heart,

and it must be an inseparable part

of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessings of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do feel that... we should cease to kill our fellow

creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

Animals cannot speak but, but can you and  I

not speak for them and represent them?

Let us all feel their cry of agony and let us 

all help that cry to be heard in the world.

Rukmini Devi Arundale

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste

of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The line separating good and evil

passes not through states,

but right through every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent.

Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless.

The key... is pragmatic idealism.

Richar M. Nixon

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Never argue with stupid people,

they will drag you down to their level

and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

The superior man thinks of virtue;

the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

The best way to convince someone is by

making him realize that what you speak

came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

The most difficult subjects can be explained

to the most slow-witted man if he has not

formed any idea of them already; but

the simplest thing cannot be made clear

to the most intelligent man if he is firmly

persuaded that he knows already,

without a shadow of doubt,

what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive

the cleverest and most penetrating man,

but the least wide-awake of children

recognizes it, and is revolted by it,

however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't want to belong to any club

that would accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

The very man who has argued you down,

will sometimes be found, years later,

to have been influenced by what you said.

C.S. Lewis

People may hear your words,

but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

The changes in our life must come from

the impossibility to live otherwise than to

the demands of our conscience, not from our

mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word is it will not be

conveyed to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

Modern Warrior

Suffering is suffering, murder is murder

and the more helpless the victim,

the more horrific the crime.

Damien Mander

I am not a trinket

The whole concept of hunting is a very alien one

to me and I cannot comprehend how any person

can derive enjoyment or pleasure from

the suffering of another creature.

Mark Owen

Hunting is a coward's pastime.

In a world of boundless opportunities

for amusement, it's detestable that anyone

would choose to get thrills from killing

others who ask for nothing from life

but the chance to remain alive.

Roger Moore

Anyone who can not go into nature and enjoy it

without killing, should not be allowed entrance.

Henrik Ibsen

Men hunt I think, maybe, because they

have something wrong with their own

equipment and they need something

else to shoot.

Pamela Anderson

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Jo Frederiks

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit

other qualities connected with the social

instincts which in us would be called moral.

Charles Darwin

If people were superior to animals,

they would take good care of them.

Winnie the Pooh

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings:

know him as an outcast.

Buddha

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

🌱 Vegan for Life 💚

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

Three times a day I remind myself that

I value life and do not want to

cause pain to or kill others.

Nathalie Portman

If we begin with ourselves and do the things

that we need to do and become the best person

we can be, we have a much better chance

of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

The mind that opens up to a new idea

never returns to its original size.

Albert Einstein

Humans think in stories, and we try to

make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

Storytelling reveals meaning without

committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless

destroyer of other living beings he will never

know health or peace. For as long as men

massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder

and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal

products. I don't eat them, I don't wear them.

I'm not for the killing of any living creature.

Anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty,

I'm totally against it.

Bryan Adams

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

I hope life treats you as well as you treat animals.

Ricky Gervais

By choosing ourselves, we are creating

an image of what human beings should be.

Jean Paul Sartre

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Life isn't about finding yourself or finding

anything. Life is about creating

yourself and creating things.

Bob Dylan

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

Your legacy is every life you've ever toched.

Maya Angelou

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let your life be your argument.

Albert Schweitzer

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that the reson of life is for

each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

One's life has value so long as one attributes

value to the life of others, by means of love,

friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir