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“[Dopo aver visitato un allevamento industriale] Come può un uomo dormire la notte sapendo che in quelle nude prigioni si trovano sotto la sua custodia tante creature che vivono solo per morire, che possono girarsi o distendersi a fatica, terrorizzate ogni volta che la porta si apre, mordendosi, litigando e impazzendo?”

Matthew Scully

Origine: Da Dominion; citato in Masson 2009, pp. 32-33

“Il trattamento che riserviamo ai nostri compagni animali è soltanto un altro modo in cui ciascuno di noi scrive il proprio epitaffio, portando nel mondo un messaggio di luce e vita oppure un messaggio di tenebre e morte, aumentandone la gioia o la disperazione.”

Matthew Scully

Origine: Citato Regan 2005, p. 6

“[Descrivendo un allevamento industriale di suini] Ovunque ferite, tumori, ulcere, ascessi, lesioni, cisti, abrasioni, orecchie strappate, gambe rigonfie. Urla di dolore, lamenti, code morsicate, risse e altri "vizi", come vengono definiti in termini industriali. Il masticare frenetico delle sbarre e delle catene, i comportamenti stereotipati del masticare a vuoto, del grufolare e del costruire tane con paglia immaginaria. E poi i "rifiuti", molti; ogni tre o quattro box un qualche essere giace completamente annientato e capisci che è ancora vivo solo perché sbatte le palpebre e ti guarda. […] creature incapaci di essere aiutate perché oltre ogni risorsa della pietà, creature che non possono essere rese ancora più derelitte perché oltre la miseria dell'indifferenza, morte per il mondo, semplici pezzi di carne.”

Matthew Scully

Origine: Citato Regan 2005, p. 147

“Un bambino che gioca con una fattoria giocattolo, disponendo cavallini e maialini al pascolo all'esterno della stalla, dimostra di comprendere la natura e la realtà molto meglio degli esperti di zootecnia…”

Matthew Scully

Origine: Citato in Masson 2009, p. 33

Matthew Scully: Frasi in inglese

“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”

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Origine: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

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Origine: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“Standing outside a factory farm, the first question that comes to mind is not a moral but a practical one: Where is everybody? Where are the owners, the farmers, the livestock managers, the extra hands, anybody? I have been driving around the North Carolina countryside on a Thursday afternoon in January 2001, pulling in at random to six hog farms, and have yet to find a single farmer or any other living soul. … There are so many factory farms around here that they are easy to miss. I doubt that the average visitor just passing through even knows what they are …”

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Dominion (2002)

“It began with one pig at a British slaughterhouse. Somewhere along the production line it was observed that the animal had blisters in his mouth and was salivating. The worst suspicions were confirmed, and within days borders had been sealed and a course of action determined. Soon all of England and the world watched as hundreds, and then hundreds of thousands, of pigs, cows, and sheep and their newborn lambs were taken outdoors, shot, thrown into burning pyres, and bulldozed into muddy graves. Reports described terrified cattle being chased by sharpshooters, clambering over one another to escape. Some were still stirring and blinking a day after being shot.”

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Dominion (2002)

“Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike.
Dominion, as we call this power in the Western tradition, today requires our concentrated moral consideration …”

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Dominion (2002)

“Foot-and-mouth disease is a form of flu, treatable by proper veterinary care, preventable by vaccination, lethal neither to humans nor to animals. These animals, millions of them not even infected, were all killed only because their market value had been diminished and because trade policies required it—because, in short, under the circumstances it was the quick and convenient thing to do. By the one measure we now apply to these creatures, they had all become worthless. For them, the difference between what happened and what awaited them anyway was one of timing. And for us the difference was visibility. This time, we had to watch.”

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Dominion (2002)

“How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each one of us, every day, writes our own epitaph—bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world's joy or to its despair.”

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Dominion (2002)

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