Frasi di Donald Watson

Donald Watson è stato un attivista britannico, pioniere del veganismo.

✵ 2. Settembre 1910 – 16. Novembre 2005
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Donald Watson frasi celebri

“Dammi da bere un whisky, ho sete". "Dovresti bere latte, il latte fa buon sangue.”

"Ma io non sono assetato di sangue".
Origine: Da The Vegan News; citato in Lorenzo Guadagnucci, Restiamo animali: vivere vegan è una questione di giustizia, Terre di mezzo, Milano, 2012, p. 32. ISBN 978-88-6189-224-8

“Ho credenze religiose molto profonde. Non sono mai stato abbastanza intelligente per essere un ateo – un agnostico sì.”

Origine: Da un'intervista della Vegan Society Trustee e di George D. Rodger, 15 dicembre 2002; citato in Alex Barbieri, Intervista a Donald Watson - Vegan Society http://www.vegan3000.info/i-345/intervista-a-donald-watson-vegan-society, vegan3000.info, 10 dicembre 2005.

“Il veganesimo dà a tutti noi l'opportunità di esprimere attraverso il nostro comportamento cosa è veramente importante nella nostra vita. Oggi perseguire l'ideale di una esistenza salutare e umana è facile grazie ai mezzi di trasporto moderni, che ci forniscono cibo vegano proveniente da tutto il mondo.”

Origine: Da un'intervista del 11 agosto 2004; citato in Pat Crocker, La bibbia del vegano, traduzione di Chiara Balzani, Newton Compton editori, Roma, 2015, epigrafe https://books.google.it/books?id=7pkUCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7. ISBN 978-88-541-7975-2

Donald Watson: Frasi in inglese

“One of my earliest recollections in life was being taken for holidays to the little farm where my father had been born. … The cows "gave" milk, the hens "gave" eggs … but I couldn't for the life of me see what the pigs "gave", and they seemed … such friendly creatures, always glad to see me, and grateful for almost anything that was thrown to them in the sty. … I still have vivid recollections of the whole process from start to finish, including all the screams of course, which were only feet away from where this pig's companion still lived. And then, when the pig had finally expired, the women came out, one after another, with buckets of this scalding water, and the body of the pig was scraped – all the hairs were taken away. The thing that shocked me, along with the chief impact of the whole setup, was that my Uncle George, of whom I thought very highly, was part of the crew, and I suppose at that point I decided that farms, and uncles, had to be re-assessed. They weren't all they seemed to be, on the face of it, to a little, hitherto uninformed boy. And it followed that this idyllic scene was nothing more than Death Row. A Death Row where every creature's days were numbered by the point at which it was no longer of service to human beings.”

Interview with George D. Rodger (15 December 2002), in VeganSociety.com https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/DW_Interview_2002_Unabridged_Transcript.pdf.

“We can see quite plainly that our present civilisation is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves, and we believe the spiritual destiny of man is such that in time he will view with abhorrence the idea that men once fed on the products of animals' bodies.”

Inaugural newsletter of the Vegan Society, Vegan News no. 1 (November 1944). Quoted in The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, edited by Linda Kalof (Oxford University Press, 2017), p. 30 https://books.google.it/books?id=Cdv_DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30.

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