Sandra Lerner Quotes

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.

People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

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

I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.