Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

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

If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.