I JUST WANT A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL INCLUDING ANIMALS

Why do we choose those that we are familiar with over those that we cannot familiarize with instantaneously? Just because animals cannot speak multiple languages, or urbanize acres of land, does not mean that they are lesser than us. Do we not both eat, breath, and communicate with the world? We have come to accept the fact that we are ‘the greater race,’ we have been told so and have thought so throughout history.
But what of the dolphin? Or the pig? Has science not shown us that they equal us in intelligence? But yet we still slaughter them and disregard them as lowly beasts. They may not walk on two legs, or are clearly understandable, but does that really mean we are better? We think that we cannot share the land, so instead take it over. We think that we cannot listen to animals simply because we cannot understand them, so we view them as ‘dumb’ and ‘unreasoning.’
But maybe we’re the unreasoning and dumb beasts. If living things are our equals in needs and thoughts, why not treat them as equals in general? Aldo Leopold states it clearly: “If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.”

ANONYMOUS

4TH OCTOBER & QUOTES ABOUT ANIMALS

• I will always support animals and believe that animal rights are just as important as human ones. If aliens invaded our home we call Earth, and demanded the flesh of humans be used for their tongues… under no circumstances would I willingly give my life up for someone else’s satisfaction, let alone an alien. And I’m sure if cows or pigs could speak the same words as you or I, they would tell us to, “go fuck yourselves, you aliens!” It’s a bloody mess what we’re doing to animals, and thinking outside the box a little, you start to realise humans are the ones that don’t get it… yet we have the power to change the way we did things yesterday.
  — Connie Pow

• “I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.”
  – Robert Brault

• Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
  — Dr. David Starr Jordan

“Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of “power” over other species.“
-Ian Somerhalder, Actor & Philanthropist

• “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”― Karl Lagerfeld

• “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
  ― Leo Tolstoy

• “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
  ― Alice Walker

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

• “Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.”
  ― Elvis Presley

• “You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.”That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.”
  ― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes “Boink”: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

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• “Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
  ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

• “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
  ― Mahatma Gandhi

• “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
  ― Martin Buber

• “Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
  ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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