Essays and Musings on Animals and Society

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Thought for the Day 

"I reject the proposition that fondness for animals implies some lack of concern for human beings. Do I have to prove a love of children by being cruel to animals? Is the person who is cruel to animals likely to love children all the more? Is that the proposition, or is cruelty an evil streak in the nature of some humans which makes a selfless love, whether for humans or animals, impossible?"
—Lord Douglas Houghton of Sowerby, House of Lords, 6/19/78
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