"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the same
time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel
called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.
The following quotations about vivisection – the use of animals in experiments – are from three people who opposed this practice.
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and
cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”
– Dr. Charles Mayo (The Mayo Clinic)
“The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman
is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature – maternal love. In not
a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease
resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.”
– Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (On January 11, 1849, she became the first woman
to earn a medical degree in the United States, and graduated first in her
class. Her sister Emily was the second woman graduate in medicine.)
“We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also. The
ethics of respect for life makes us keep on the lookout together for
opportunities of bringing some sort of help to animals, to make up for the
great miseries men inflict on them.”
– Albert Schweitzer, M.D. (Physician, Clergyman, winner of Nobel Peace
Prize)
For a large collection of quotations, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/quote.html
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