Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

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

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

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