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

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

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.

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

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.

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