Ethics

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life where possible and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." Albert Schweitzer

"All real progress in civilization depends upon man's ethical ideals.” Dr. Albert Leffingwell

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives." Bhagavad Gita

"In the slaughterhouse, one person with the courage to speak out is a battalion. One factory farmer with the courage to walk away is an army. One politician with a brain, a spine and a conscience is a lighthouse. One nation with an animal rights constitution is a force of nature." Philip Wollen

"A principle is a principle, and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard." Gandhi

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attach it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." Sir Winston Churchill

"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things." Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak

“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession.” Professor J. Howard Moore, 1862-1916 Better World Philosophy

Speciesism FAQ: https://www.animal-ethics.org/speciesism-faq/

Factory Farming -- Ethical Issues in Agriculture Put a stop to factory/industrial farming!

It’s a twisted world in which violence, bloodshed, and carnism is the norm and compassion and veganism is ridiculed as extremism.

The Moral Status of Animals; debating Personhood; legally recognizing animals as sentient beings; 2017 Sentience Institute founded

Comment: Animals murdered in the name of culture, tradition, religion, celebration, or superstition are among the greatest obstacles to our moral progress. Logical arguments and fact-based evidence can help awaken people to their moral blindness.

Factory farms are a ticking pathogen bomb for the global pandemic. Covid-19 is a wake-up call!

‎"In the midst of our high-tech, ostentatious, hedonistic lifestyle, among the dazzling monuments to history, art, religion, and commerce, there are the 'black boxes.’ These are the biomedical research laboratories, factory farms, and slaughterhouses – faceless compounds where society conducts its dirty business of abusing and killing innocent, feeling beings. These are the Dachaus, our Buchenwalds, our Birkenaus. Like the good German burghers, we have a good idea what goes on there, but we don’t want a reality check.” Dr. Alex Hershaft, holocaust survivor and founder of FARM.

March 2013 PETA:You asked for it—you got it. Because of the overwhelming response to this piece, we are publishing it once more to give our supporters a chance to share it on Twitter and Facebook and spread the message about the cruelty of factory farms far and wide. Very graphic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I2dGvZiHUJ0

Unseen they suffer; Unheard they cry; In agony they linger; In loneliness they die.

Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. Compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire.

Comment: All of us need to change our mindset with regard to our sense of dominance over other species, our sense of entitlement, and how we understand ourselves in relation to our ecological environment. Unless there is a moral and cultural revolution, a crusade to end our holocaust over animals, we will destroy ourselves, and sadly destroy any and all else that crosses our path. Face it, we are the problem.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a new feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today, and investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. It could just do to the meat and dairy industries what "Blackfish" is doing to SeaWorld.

October 2015 Toronto Pig Save co-founder faces criminal mischief charges for showing compassion to pigs destined for the slaughterhouse. Watch the video Best Video You Will Ever See - The Crime: Compassion.

Plant Based Treaty As a companion to the UNFCCC/Paris Agreement, the Plant Based Treaty is a landmark international treaty and first of its kind to put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis. The Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity. The three core principles: Relinquish Respect Restore.

The suffering, oppression, and victimizing of non-human animals by humans is unethical in the extreme. Enjoy a vegan lifestyle – it’s the best move you can make. If you keep buying, they keep dying.