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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.