If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

When all else fails, philosophize.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.