Eat Like You Care Quotes

“When it comes to animals, we suffer from moral schizophrenia.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.”
― Gary Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It’s not the only way.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“Sentience is a means to the end of continued existence. Sentient beings, by virtue of their being sentient, have an interest in remaining alive; that is, they prefer, want, or desire to remain alive.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“Bazı hayvanları sevip onlara ailemizin birer üyesi gibi muamele ederken, onlara hissetme yetilerinden, duygusal kapasitelerinden, kendilerinin farkında olan birer kişi olduklarından asla şüphe duymazken, onlardan hiç de farklı olmayan başka hayvanların ölü bedenlerine çatal bıçaklarımızı saplamamıza neden olan ahlaki şizofrenimize son vermemiz gerekir!”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves to perpetuate. It would be analogous to saying that a being with eyes does not have an interest in continuing to see or is not harmed by being made blind. The Jains of India expressed it well long ago: “All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“So, in the end, what’s the best justification that we have for imposing suffering and death on 57 billion land animals and at least a trillion aquatic animals, whom we do not need to consume for nutritional purposes, and given that this consumption results in ecological devastation?”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“approximately 80% of the antibiotics that are produced are fed to animals used for food.[7] The use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the resulting dissemination of antibiotics can contribute to antibiotic resistance in humans.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“1,000 to 2,000 gallons of water to produce a gallon of milk.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“animal foods represent an inefficient use of plant protein in that animals have to consume many pounds of grain or forage to produce one pound of meat.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“than 57 billion animals a year, not counting fish and other aquatic animals, which involves probably another trillion animals at the least. A billion is one thousand million. A trillion is one million million. So every year, we are responsible for a staggering number of deaths.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals

“In fact, in most cases, the bulls killed in the arena are butchered and the meat is distributed to the poor. The difference between the two situations is that in one situation, the slaughter is not choreographed; in the other, it is. And that is the only difference.”
― Gary L. Francione, Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals