If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

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

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.

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

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

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.