We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.