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

I know of a number of people who are successfully earning to give. That isn't for everyone but for those with the ability to earn a lot of money and the character to resist the temptation to spend it on themselves, it can be a great way to do good.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

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

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.