When humans refuse to inflict pain on other humans, surely it is because we assume they feel. It is not because another person can think, nor because they can reason, nor even because they can speak that we respect their physical boundaries, but because they feel….We do not want to cause suffering. If, as I believe, animals feel pain and sorrow and all the other emotions, these feelings cannot be ignored in our behavior toward them.
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives Of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. (via thinkveganworld)


















