Norm Phelps Quotes

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When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.

Norm Phelps

Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.

Norm Phelps

Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

Norm Phelps

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Norm Phelps

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

Norm Phelps

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented and killed.

Norm Phelps

Norm Phelps

Norm Phelps

Born: May 16, 1939

Died: December 31, 2014 (aged 75)

Bio: Norm Phelps was an American writer. He was a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians, and a former outreach director of the Fund for Animals.

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The longest struggle (2007)

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