Monday, September 29, 2025

๐ŸฎNot Your Mother - Not Your Milk ๐Ÿ„

We're taught as children that milk
comes from cows when in reality,
milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

Jo Frederiks

It is my firm conviction that man need take
no milk at all, beyond the mother's
milk that he takes as a baby.

Mahatma Gandhi


The animals you eat are not those who devour
others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,
you take them as your pattern. You only
hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures
which harm no one, which follow you,
serve you, and are devoured by you
as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau



Man is as much a parasite on the cow
as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera


We know things about her that no one should
ever know, or want to know, about a fellow
being... the taste, texture and flavor of every
aspect of her despair, degradation and defeat.

We know every detail of what we have forced
her to be - an object to consume and excrete.
What we don't know, what we don't want to
know, is what we must know if we are
to restore our own humanity: who she is.

Joanna Lucas


Man has made the Earth a Hell for animals.
Arthur Schopenhauer


The dairy industry tried to convince you
for 20 years that milk was good for you.
It's a lie, but they tried anyway.

Steve Jobs


Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise:
the definition of white as the norm or standard
for human, and people of color
as the deviation from that norm.

Robin DiAngelo


Humans are the only animals that drink
the milk of the mother of another species.
All other animals stop drinking milk
altogether after weaning.

Michael Klaper



Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man
wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf
And binds the wretch, and beats him when he
strays, Bearing him to the bloody slaughter-
house, Even so remorseless have they borne him
hence; And as the dam runs lowing up and
down, Looking the way her harmless young
went, And can do nought but wail
her darling's loss.

William Shakespeare


A mother's love does not derive from
the intellect but from the emotions,
in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides


In every living being there is the desire for love.
D.H. Lawrence


We're exploiting female bodies and abusing
the magic of female animals to create milk.

Nathalie Portman


Being vegetarian here also means that we do not
consume dairy and egg products, because they
are products of the meat industry. If we stop
consuming, they will stop producing. Only
collective awakening can create enough
determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh



Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing
creatures; none show more passionate
tenderness to their young when deprived
of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed
to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

Sunday, September 28, 2025

What's Wrong With Wool? ๐Ÿ

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.
Isaac Bashevis Singer


If one person is unkind to an animal
it is considered to be cruelty,
but if a lot of people are unkind to animals
(especially in the name of profit)
the cruelty is condoned and will be defended
by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison


Veganism is not a diet.
It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman



Men are the devils of the earth,
and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhaur


If God condones what we do to animals
- then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky


Make a habit of two things: to help;
or at least to do no harm.

Hippocrates


Being vegan for me is about trying to live
a life where I'm not contributing to
the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain


I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,
and not to support any act of killing in the world.
We should consume in such a way that helps
to reduce the suffering of living beings.
And that way we can preserve
compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh


Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and
watch. In a consumer-driven society our
individual choices, used collectively for
the good of animals, can change
the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff


The world is not a factory and animals
are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Veganism isn't just about what's on your plate.
Compassion is a lifestyle.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Saturday, September 20, 2025

What If... ๐Ÿ‘ฝ

People say they love animals
and yet harm them nontheless;
I'm glad those people don't love me.

Marc Bekoff


Forgive him, for he believes that the customs
of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw


Many people have ideas on how others
should change; few people have ideas
on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy


Cows scream louder than carrots.
Alan Watts


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


If you think being a quaker is easy,
you're not doing it right.

Benjamin Lay


I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals;
I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown


The longer I live, the more convinced am I that
this planet is used by other planets
as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw


If a group of beings from another planet were to
land on Earth beings who considered themselves
as superior to you as you feel yourself to be
to other animals would you concede them
the rights over you that you assume
over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw


The basis of all animal rights should be
the Golden Rule: we should treat them
as we would wish them to treat us, were
any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

๐ŸฅฉMeat is Murder ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ“

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

In forest, field and den,

The cry goes up to witness,

The soullessness of men.


M. Frida Hartley



Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Benjamin Franklin

Jo Frederiks

The butcher with his bloody apron incites
bloodshed, murder... From cutting the throat
of a young calf to cutting the throats of
our brothers and sisters is but a step.
While we ourselves are living
graves of murdered animals...

Isadora Duncan


You either approve of violence or you don't,
and nothing on Earth is more violent
or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

Feeling comfortable?

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty
for what it is - whether its victim is human
or animal - we cannot expect things
to be much better in this world.

Rachel Carson


Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love
God... there is something so satanic in
tormenting those who have never harmed us,
and who cannot defend themselves,
who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

Jo Frederiks

However scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles,
there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Truly man is the king of beasts.
We live by the death of others.
We are burial places.

Leonardo da Vinci

Jo Frederiks

All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death, all love life.
See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?

Buddha


If you don't like seeing pictures of violence
towards animals being posted,
you need to help stop the violence,
not the pictures.

Marie Sarantakis


Ruthless man... You turn against the dead flesh,
it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire,
boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with
drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits,
men who will rid the murder if its horrors,
who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste
deceived by these disguises will not reject what
is strange to it, and will feast on corpses,
the very sight of which would sicken you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Indifference is the acid of life.
It erodes all the spirit that's in us
and makes us useless to anyone else.

Joan D. Chittister


The scariest thing about hearing the slaughter
is the silence that comes afterwards...
because you know there was a life...
and now there isn't.

Tal Gilboa

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Mad Men


I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool
themselves. They didn't bother to find out who
or what I was. Instead they would invent
a character for me. I wouldn't argue
with them. They were obviously
loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe


The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche


When a person can't find a deep sense
of meaning, they distract themselves
with pleasures.

Victor Frankl


People had a habit of looking at me as if I were
some kind of mirror instead of a person.
They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd
thoughts, then they white-masked themselves
by calling me the lewd one.

Marilyn Monroe


Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung


Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


What separates the talented individual from
the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King


Man will always be attracted to the woman
who reflects his deepest vision of himself,
the woman whose surrender permits him
to experience a sense of self-esteem.

Ayn Rand




Change is the only constant in life.
Ones ability to adapt to those changes
will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin