quotes

Liberty and Safety

Gandharva — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:06:58 -0700

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

Censorship and discretion

Gandharva — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:49:43 -0700

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..."

— Henry Steel Commager

Vegan Health in comparison to that of meat eaters

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:23:12 -0700

"In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians."

— T. Colin Campbell, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University (letter dated 3/29/98)

Food supply and a Vegan (or vegetarian) diet

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:02:15 -0700

About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products...

— M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.

Cruelty in a crowd

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:59:40 -0700

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

— Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines

Mark Twain on Vivisection

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:54:52 -0700

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."

— Mark Twain, author

The life of a lamb

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:52:16 -0700

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being"

— Mahatma Gandhi

Slaughterhouses and battlefields

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:47:47 -0700

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."

— Leo Tolstoy, author

Nazis

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:23:07 -0700

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."

— Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978

The insuperable line

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:13:17 -0700

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

— Jeremy Bentham, philosopher