Quotes by Peter Cox

Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision:Whenever people say We mustnt be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add We must be realistic, they mean they are going to make money out of it. These slogans have a long history. After being used to justify slave traders, ruthless industrialists, and contractors who had found that the most economically realistic method of cleaning a chimney was to force a small child to climb it, they have now been passed on, like an heirloom, to the factory farmers. We mustnt be sentimental tries to persuade us that factory farming isnt, in fact, cruel. It implies that the whole problem had been invented by our sloppy imaginations.