Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

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

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.