Quotes Concerning Society
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The quotes on this page are wide ranging. Most statements here I have tried to relate to individuals and the societies they comprise.

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(7 Quotations)

• Carol J. Adams (The Sexual Politics of Meat) – “After being butchered, fragmented body parts are often renamed to obscure the fact that these were once animals. After death, cows become roast beef, steak, hamburger; pigs become pork, bacon, sausage. Since objects are possessions they cannot have possessions; thus, we say “leg of lamb” not a “lamb’s leg,” “chicken wings” not a “chicken’s wings.” We opt for less disquieting referent points not only by changing names from animals to meat, but also by cooking, seasoning, and covering the animals with sauces, disguising their original nature.”

• John Berger (Why Look at Animals?) – "The first metaphor was animal."

• T. Casey Brennan (Comic Book Author) – “Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”

• Rachel Carson (biologist, writer, ecologist) - "Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."

• Sefer Ha Chinuch (Mitzvah 596) - "When a man becomes accustomed to have pity upon animals [. . .] his soul will likewise grow accustomed to be kind to human beings.”

• Karen Davis, PhD (Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs; 1996) - "Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment, a piece of meat, an "it," without degenerating into cruelty towards that creature?"

• Jacques Deval (Screenwriter, Afin de vivre bel et bien) - "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

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