Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

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

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

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

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.