"But why animals? It’s because that’s the root. If you want to be effective, you work at the roots. That’s the most universally accepted form of oppression. People sometimes will ask, why animals? And my answer is, it’s not about the animals. It’s about us. It’s about who we are, how we treat the least defensible, the most oppressed, the weakest in our society. What does it say about us?"
- Alex Hershaft (Holocaust survivor and animal rights activist)
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If we killed humans as fast as we kill animals for food, the entire human race would be extinct in less than three weeks.
(150 billion animals slaughtered each year / 52.17857 weeks in a year = 2.875 billion animals slaughtered every week
7.8 billion people / 2.875 = 2.7 weeks)
Source: thevegancalculator.com/animal-slaughter/
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"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
- Jeremy Bentham