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

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

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

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.

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.