If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

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

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.

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

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

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.

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!