Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

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