Mercy For Chickens

The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”

― Jeremy Bentham

 

Animals can communicate quite well.  And they do.  And generally speaking, they are ignored.

― Alice Walker

If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ― Anonymous.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ― Albert Schweitzer.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

― Mahatma Gandhi

A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. — Paul McCartney

We don’t need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.  — James Cromwell

If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch.  — k.d.lang

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?  ― Pierre Troubetzkoy

God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages.  ― Jacques Deval

Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.  — U.S. News & World Report.

Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.  — James Anthony Froude. 

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.  — Immanual Kant

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.  — Ingrid Newkirk

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.  — Mark Twain