Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if we change, not for a day or a year, but for a lifetime. Yes, it will change, if we change.

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.

What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

Never give other people another reason to ignore other animals. That's what we do when we come across as being so much better than the next guy or gal.