One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

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

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

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.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.