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Matthew Scully

“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”

― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
tags: animal-rights, animal-welfare, animals, carnism, evil, factory-farms, meat, necessity
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