Famous Vegans - Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams with Snowball.

Carol J. Adams

Born in 1951. She is an American author and animal rights activist. She's the author of The S exual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat, focusing on the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals. She is also the author of Living Among Meat Eaters and has published many articles in journals, books and magazines on animal rights, domestic violence and sexual abuse. Check out her website and her blog.

Quotes by Carol J. Adams:

"At a vegan Mexican dinner and book signing, I talked with students. I hear from several of them, "People say, ‘I get it, but I don’t want to give up my hamburger, or I don’t want to give up my chicken sandwich." I’ve heard that too, and my temptation is to respond to the second part of the sentence and say "well, you’re selfish." Clearly, this is a difficult thing to do if you want to keep your friends. Then I realize, no, they don’t get it. If they did, they wouldn’t have any doubts, they would know that they can’t live with themselves if they continue to eat animals. That’s the difference – if people see what they are doing as eating hamburger, they haven’t made the connections. I say, 'You should tell them, You don’t get it.'"

"When vegans eat with meat eaters, many of us don’t see “meat.” We see the remains of a morally abandoned being, at the center of the table, being buried into the stomachs of those around us. We are not just supposed to be quiet, we are supposed to be polite."

"In The S exual Politics of Meat, I propose that the term meat is functioning as an absent referent: one cannot truly like a piece of meat because meat by definition is something violently deprived of all feeling. In regard to rape victims and battered women, the death experience of animals acts to illustrate the lived experience of women."

"I don’t believe animal advocacy needs naked bodies to make its point. Animals can be compelling on their own, if we were to give them a chance and a real voice."

Quotes are from her blog.