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

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

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.

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

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

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.

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.