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The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
A Plea for the Animals
An articulate call for animal rights, as well as a forceful and wide-ranging criticism of human abuse of animals.
Every cow simply wants to be content. Every bird yearns to be let free. Every bear, dog, or mouse feels grief and anguish in the same way that we people do. Matthieu Ricard takes the arguments from his best-selling books Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion for all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire in this compelling appeal to reason and human kindness. He documents the horrifying miseries of the animals we feed, dress, and use for "entertainment," and challenges every conventional rationale for their exploitation with scientific facts and moral inquiry. What emerges is a clear and compelling ethical obligation to treat all creatures with respect and compassion with whom we share this world.
The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
