Lynn Coady Quotes

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

Animals have a very clear spirit, and they are so open to the world around them that they can easily be mistreated.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.