//store the quotations in arrays quotes = new Array(37); authors = new Array(37); context = new Array(37); quotes[0] = "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. \ Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."; authors[0] = "Pythagoras"; quotes[1] = "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the \ murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."; authors[1] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[2] = "To a man whose mind is free there is something even more \ intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. \ For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and \ that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are \ uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were \ to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the \ unpardonable crime."; authors[2] = "Romain Rolland"; context[2] = "author, Nobel Prize 1915"; quotes[3] = "If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth \ — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel \ yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights \ over you that you assume over other animals?"; authors[3] = "George Bernard Shaw"; quotes[4] = "What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The \ question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, \ "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?""; authors[4] = "Jeremy Bentham"; quotes[5] = "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. \ Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise \ they victimize blindly and without a thought."; authors[5] = "Isaac Bashevis Singer"; quotes[6] = "Our task must be to free ourselves ...by widening our circle of \ compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and \ its beauty."; authors[6] = "Albert Einstein"; quotes[7] = "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of \ survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."; authors[7] = "Albert Einstein"; quotes[8] = "Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still \ savages."; authors[8] = "Thomas Jefferson"; quotes[9] = "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse \ is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."; authors[9] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson"; context[9] = ""Fate," The Conduct of Life, 1860"; quotes[10] = "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be \ judged by the way its animals are treated."; authors[10] = "Mohandas Gandhi"; quotes[11] = "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore."; authors[11] = "Franz Kafka"; quotes[12] = "Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, \ but to stop there is not enough."; authors[12] = "St. Francis of Assisi"; quotes[13] = "The decision that has led millions of people to stop eating \ other animals is not rooted in arid adherence to diet or dogma, but in \ the desire to eliminate the kinds of experiences that using animals for \ food confers upon beings with feelings."; authors[13] = "Karen Davis, PhD"; context[13] = ""Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs," 1996"; quotes[14] = "This [the movie "Babe"] is the way Americans want to \ think of pigs. Real-life "Babes" see no sun in their limited \ lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny \ cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, \ and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge \ pits."; authors[14] = "Morley Safer"; context[14] = ""Pork Power," 60 Minutes, 9/19/97"; quotes[15] = "It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the \ modern slaughterhouse where Ramon Moreno works... The cattle were supposed \ to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren't. \ "They blink. They make noises," he said softly. "The head \ moves, the eyes are wide and still looking around." Still, Moreno \ would cut. On bad days, he says, dozens of animals reached his station \ clearly alive and conscious. Some would survive as far as the tail cutter, \ the belly ripper, the hide puller. "They die," said Moreno, \ "piece by piece.""; context[15] = ""Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest," Washington Post, \ 4/10/01"; quotes[16] = "Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor \ commodities, but precious beings in God's sight."; authors[16] = "Rev. Andrew Linzey"; context[16] = ""Animal Theology," 1995"; quotes[17] = "The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does \ for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk."; authors[17] = "Michael Klaper, MD"; quotes[18] = "Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and \ spirituality."; authors[18] = "Dexter Scott King"; context[18] = "son of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vegetarian Times, 10/95"; quotes[19] = "The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the \ planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of \ water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are disastrous."; authors[19] = "David Brubaker, PhD"; context[19] = "Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University"; quotes[20] = "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were \ not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or \ women created for men."; authors[20] = "Alice Walker"; context[20] = "author of "The Color Purple""; quotes[21] = "The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the \ fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable \ of imagination, rationality, and moral choice — and that is precisely \ why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of \ animals."; authors[21] = "Brigid Brophy"; context[21] = ""The Rights of Animals," 1989"; quotes[22] = "If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will \ brand your soul for life."; authors[22] = "Howard Lyman"; context[22] = "former cattle rancher"; quotes[23] = "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; \ therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely \ for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."; authors[23] = "Leo Tolstoy"; quotes[24] = "...if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be \ cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the \ name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money \ are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people."; authors[24] = "Ruth Harrison"; context[24] = ""Animal Machines""; quotes[25] = "About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock \ in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a \ person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support \ a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will \ feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans \ in the form of livestock products."; authors[25] = "M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D."; quotes[26] = "When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting \ his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to \ extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is \ unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give."; authors[26] = "Isaac Bashevis Singer"; quotes[27] = "It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our \ grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more \ difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can \ dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values \ we hold."; authors[27] = "Peter Singer"; context[27] = "Princeton University Professor of Bioethics"; quotes[28] = "Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, \ yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed \ on babies, though not our own."; authors[28] = "Robert Louis Stevenson"; quotes[29] = "People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if \ this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this \ logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, \ since this has also been done since the earliest of times."; authors[29] = "Isaac Bashevis Singer"; quotes[30] = "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a \ vegetarian."; authors[30] = "Paul McCartney"; quotes[31] = "If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch."; authors[31] = "k. d. lang"; quotes[32] = "Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and \ pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal."; authors[32] = "Ingrid Newkirk"; quotes[33] = "Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they \ suffer just as much."; authors[33] = "James Cromwell"; quotes[34] = "Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned \ with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals \ don't vote."; authors[34] = "Paul Harvey"; quotes[35] = "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They \ always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think \ my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."; authors[35] = "Ellen DeGeneres"; quotes[36] = "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly \ on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun."; authors[36] = "P. G. Wodehouse"; quotes[37] = "I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the \ human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals." authors[37] = "Henry David Thoreau" function putQuote() { //calculate a random index index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); //display the quotation document.write("
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