Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone.

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

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.

The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture's values are - and they're not vegan!

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.

Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone.