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

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

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.