Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

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.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.