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

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

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

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 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.

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