We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

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.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as dogs are. Few people feel sympathy for rats. Yet rats are intelligent animals, and there can be no doubt that rats are capable of suffering and do suffer from countless painful experiments performed on them. If the army were to stop experiments on dogs and switch to rats instead, we should not be any less concerned.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

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