The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific….

It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to….

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For….

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the ….

Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go o….

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental….

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, ….

Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is a good thing to do. But you have to thi….

It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like co….

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics..

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did..

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is..

Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to ….

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt..

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the ….

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human..

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open ….

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the worl….

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential p….

People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as ….

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist..