Animal Factory Quotes

#1. Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food. - Author: Peter Singer

#2. Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all. - Author: Matthew Scully

#3. If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer. - Author: Michael Pollan

#4. Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways. - Author: Peter Dinklage

#5. Generally I'm very supportive of farmers. I think the wider Australian population is also. The animal justice fund is focusing on factory-farmed animals and where they're being mistreated. - Author: Jan Cameron

#6. I miss my mother very, very much. - Author: Paul Haggis

#7. In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same. - Author: Stephen Mitchell

#8. Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them. - Author: Matthew Scully

#9. Rebecca, standing at the window, felt a tiny smile inside her getting larger - how delicious it would be: one moment of perfect joy, propped up and righteous with booze, to let that first punch fly. - Author: Elizabeth Strout

#10. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. - Author: Anonymous

#11. If you eat animals, you don't love animals; you love to eat them." - Andrew Kirschner, Ed.D. - Author: Andrew Kirschner

#12. Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system. - Author: Steve Buscemi

#14. It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge. - Author: Sharon Gannon

#15. Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit? - Author: Ellen Page

#16. The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty. - Author: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#17. If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. - Author: James Cromwell

#18. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal. - Author: Ryu Murakami

#19. When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? - Author: Matthew Scully

#20. If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a farm, there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. - Author: John Maynard Keynes

#21. Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. - Author: Laura Mennell

#22. Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way. - Author: Saul Bellow

#23. Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt. - Author: John McKeithen

#24. Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity. - Author: Bruce Friedrich

#26. For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. - Author: John Lydon

#27. Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step. - Author: Christofer Drew

#28. People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. - Author: Richard Gere

#29. The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#30. More than any set of practices, factory farming is a mind-set: reduce production costs to the absolute minimum and systematically ignore or "externalize" such costs as environmental degradation, human disease, and animal suffering. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer