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  1. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren't necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.
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  2. Robert M. Sapolsky _ Behave: The Biology of Humans

    You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.
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  3. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting-to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
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  5. Yann Martel _ The High Mountains of Portugal

    Without your sheep, you would have no livelihood, you would die. This dependency creates a sort of equality, doesn't it? Not individually, but collectively. As a group, you and your sheep are at opposite sides of a seesaw, and somewhere in between there is a fulcrum. You must maintain the balance. In that sense, we are no better than they.
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  6. Yann Martel _ The High Mountains of Portugal

    He weeps like a child, catching his breath and hiccuping,his face drenched with tears.We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship. {..} We are risen does, not fallen angels. Tomás is strangled by loneliness.
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  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    I don't like vegans, either. Bunch of whiny zealots. A cow or a pig wouldn't give a damn if a person died… animals tear apart other animals while they're still alive, but we aren't so cruel, so vegans should learn to shut up. Vegans use palm oil and never think about the forests and endangered species at risk from that… and they all exploit the world in other ways, buying their computers and their sweatshop clothes and their Starbucks coffees. Anyway, cats and dogs eat their owners after the owner dies. I saw on the news a few times that there was a lot of open animal food in the houses where that sort of thing happens, but the pets eat the dead owner… just because. Maybe a pet's notion of 'unconditional love' is like Jeffrey Dahmer… he used to eat and kill the people he professed to love, too. He was a sicko… I don't believe animals have any empathy. Do elephants ever consider Holocaust victims? Do dogs ever cry over the Rwanda Genocide?
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  8. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is a result of our emotions - love apathy, charity of malice - and what part is predetermines by the constant power play among individuals. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test {which lies deeply buries from view}, consists of attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental débâcle, a débâcle so fundamental all others stem from it.
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  9. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turned strictly vegetarian.
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  10. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see {or hear about} what they do.
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  11. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    Cruelty: Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it.
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  12. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals

    ...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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