People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.