Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.