If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?

...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.