Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

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

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

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.

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.