請參考: Gandhi Was Vegetarian - Whether You Like it or Not http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/449-farm-and-food-policy/11333-gandhi-was-vegetarian-whether-you-like-it-or-not
「劍橋宣言的最後一段宣稱:「缺乏大腦新皮層似乎不表示生物沒有經歷情感狀態變化的能力。各類證據皆不約而同地指出:非人動物擁有構成意識所需的神經結構、神經化學及神經生理基礎物質,以及有能力展示帶有意圖的行為。因此,證據充份表明人類並非唯一擁有產生意識的神經基礎物質的生物。非人動物,包括所有哺乳類及鳥類、以及其他生物,包括章魚,也擁有這些神經基礎物質。」(“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”) (The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, 2012, P.2)」
◆ The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.