Obstacles to Fundamental Change
“Each person within their own psyche has to begin grappling with whether or not nonhuman animals should no longer be treated as slaves, or should they be treated as slaves?” Steve Wise
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An Uncomfortable Idea
“We used to enslave human beings, now we enslave nonhuman beings in very similar ways. It’s only a comfortable thing if you don’t think about it.” Steve Wise
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The Principle of Equality
“Here you have human beings who basically have no autonomy, no consciousness, no sentience at all being treated as legal persons with a whole panoply of rights. And here you have, say chimpanzees or bonobos, who are pygmy chimpanzees, who are extraordinarily cognitively complex, who have autonomy, who should have dignity, and yet they’re treated as things. So as a matter of equality there is something wrong here.” – Steve Wise There are two versions of this clip. For the longer version, please see The Principle of Equality (extended version).
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Compilation)
Peter Singer, Lee Hall, Richard Epstein, Steve Wise, Jarrod Bailey, Sarah Baeckler, Katherine Meyer, Pat Dingle and Gary Francione recommend one thing to improve the lives of animals.
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Lee Hall)
“There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.”
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Richard Epstein)
“You really have an obligation when you have an animal to take care of it and to make sure that its offspring are well cared for or to make sure that it can’t have offspring.”
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Jarrod Bailey)
“Please make sure that your opinions on whether research involving chimpanzees is futile or is a necessary evil is an informed opinion.”
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Sarah Baeckler)
“I don’t think that chimps will continue to be used in entertainment for very much longer. But just don’t go to movies that have them in there. Make the financial dollar sign vote that you’re just not going to support it and write to companies when you see them in ads. It’s a little thing you can do but every voice that a company hears from…it does make a difference.”
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Gary Francione)
“Whatever else you’re doing, if you’re not a vegan, I don’t understand what you’re doing. I don’t understand why you care. If you’re eating them, if you’re wearing them, what do you care? Why do you care?”
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One Thing to Improve the Lives of Animals (Katherine Meyer)
“There are so many times when you’ll see an animal struggling or being mistreated or locked up in a hot car or an injured pigeon on the side of the road. Stop and take care of that animal.”
