But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

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.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.