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

I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

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.

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

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.