Marc Bekoff Quotes

Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the co-founder, with Jane Goodall, of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former Guggenheim fellow. He lectures internationally on animal behavior, cognitive ethology , and behavioral ecology, and writes a science column about animal emotion for Psychology Today. He is an advocate for the compassionate conservation movement.Bekoff is a vegan. He is also a patron of the Captive Animals Protection Society, a charity campaigning against the exotic pet trade, and the use of non-human animals in circuses and zoos. In May 2010 he argued in an article for the Greater Good Science Center, "Expanding Our Compassionate Footprint," that human beings need to abandon human exceptionalism: "Research on animal morality is blossoming, and if we can break free of theoretical prejudices, we may come to better understand ourselves and the other animals with whom we share this planet." Wikipedia

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“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”

Marc Bekoff

Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”

Marc Bekoff

Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”

Marc Bekoff

Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”

Marc Bekoff

Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”

Marc Bekoff

Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”

Marc Bekoff

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