“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher

The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience (1957), p. 5.
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Waka Flocka Flame (1986) American rapper and comedian

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“Animals in zoos (we are told) believe that their bars protect them. We Americans have forged our own bars, built our own cage, and live in it more or less content as long as someone feeds us.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Petting Zoo", p. 432
Nonfiction

“All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. … [How long have you been a vegetarian? ] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

" Brigitte Bardot: 'I became aware of the horror of factory farming http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=51041&lang=en". Interview for Primorske novice (November 2009) as reported by European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA) website

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Charles Patterson (author) (1935) American author and historian

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Source: Eternal Treblinka (2002), p. 28

“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”

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