Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.

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

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

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

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.