“Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.”

—  Jane Goodall

The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv

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British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934

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