I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

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

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

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.