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While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals that are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it.

— George Monbiot

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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

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No political challenge can be met by shopping.

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