Because I saw Earthlings.
The complete documentary is available here.
This is something that everybody should see, but that nobody wants to see!
-- Fernando Lobo, 19/Jun/2007
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
-- Leonardo da Vinci
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
-- Jeremy Bentham
"Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-- Albert Einstein
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas Edison