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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #vega




Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.


Michael Connelly


#desperation #escape #las-vegas #los-angeles #nevada

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.


Michael Pollan


#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #food #hunting

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.


Jonathan Safran Foer


#factory-farming #meat #science #veganism #vegetarianism

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.


Ellen DeGeneres


#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?


Jonathan Safran Foer


#vegetarian #opportunity

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!


Kelley Armstrong


#jaime-vegas #kelley-armstrong #magic

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


Gary L. Francione


#communication #companies #companion-animals #delusion #education

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


Gary L. Francione


#animal-products #dairy #exploitation #francione #milk

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


Gary L. Francione


#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.


Zoe Weil


#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot