To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded a…

- Matthew Scully

My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing …

- Matthew Scully

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the…

- Matthew Scully

Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig o…

- Matthew Scully

Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that …

- Matthew Scully

Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not…

- Matthew Scully

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign tha…

- Matthew Scully

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken…

- Matthew Scully

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with c…

- Matthew Scully