"Now what is it moves our very heart and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching… there is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us and who cannot defend themselves; who are utterly in our power." ~ ( John Henry Newman ) ~ 1801-1890

"We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings "~ ( Mahatma Gandi) ~ 1869-1948

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man..." -Isaiah 66:3                         
           
Against the Brutality of Factory Farms......Thankyou.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/386653241  

" Thou shalt not kill, does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.”  If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.  “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.”      Count Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)