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.

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

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.

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

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

Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you.

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.

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.

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

Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.

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

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.

I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.

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!