It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.