Animal cruelty

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Idea of Progress

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Animal cruelty Man and animals

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William Ralph Inge

Source

The Idea of Progress

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Inge, William Ralph. "The Idea of Progress." Romanes Lecture. 27 May 1920, The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

Author

John Williams (novelist)

Source

Butcher's Crossing

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western fiction Western

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Quoted in Moralia, by Plutarch

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Animal cruelty Man and animals

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Bion of Borysthenes

Author

Plutarch

Source

Moralia

Medium

Essay

Language

Greek

Time

100 100s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Bion. Quoted in "De sollertia animalium [Whether Land or Sea Animals are Cleverer]." Moralia [Morals], written by Plutarch. c. 100.

Current Citation

Bion. Quoted in "Whether Land or Sea Animals are Cleverer." Moralia, written by Plutarch. Vol. 12, Harvard University Press, 1957.

Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

Gourmet

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Food

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Consider the Lobster Gourmet

Medium

Essay Magazine

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

Current Citation

Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.

A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

Carl Sagan

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Animals

Author

Carl Sagan

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Random House, 1992, ch. 19.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

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Animal cruelty Man and animals

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Upton Sinclair

Source

The Jungle

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Sinclair, Upton. "The Jungle." Appeal to Reason, 25 Feb. 1905-4 Nov. 1905.

Current Citation

Sinclaire, Upton. The Jungle. Dover Publications, 2001, ch. 3.