Here’s a better line of argument:
Almost all animals have brains, central nervous systems, and pain receptors. Â If they can feel pain and struggle to survive, clearly they deserve the right to life. Â What right do we have, as human beings, to denounce animals as soulless creatures that only exist for the purposes of our consumption?
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man. –Mahatma GandhiÂ
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul -Pythagoras
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. -Hippocrates
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that’s the essence of inhumanity. –Â George Bernard Shaw
All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. -Buddha
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull senses. – Mark Twain
There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two tings, but they are people like unto you. – The Koran
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. -Emile ZolaÂ
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