Horse racing involves the slaughter of tens of thousands of horses every year, across the globe perhaps hundreds. The fact that people are completely unaware of this, and the other ethical issues surrounding horse racing, prompted me to write this piece for Animal Liberation Queenslands newsletter.
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel
The Surprising Science on What Motivates Vegetarians, from the Breakfast Table to the Bedroom
If there were one book I would want people to read on how to make a vegan world it would be this one. Cooney takes an approach I think we could do with a lot more of in our movement. Using science and data he looks at what these tell...