All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and a stronger orientation towards the future.

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.