We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them.... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.