In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV.
If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
«La creencia de que existen los animales porque Dios los creó - y que los creó para que podamos responder mejor a nuestras necesidades - es contraria a nuestra comprensión científica de la evolución y...
The idea that there are objective ethical truths that are independent ofwhat anyone desires.
Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change.
Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The
Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives. But against the Japanese charge of cultural bias, Western nations will have...
To forestall misunderstandings: there is value in creating and enjoying art. To many people, drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, and playing a musical instrument are vital forms of self-expression,...
Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval scholar whose ideas became the semi-official philosophy of the Roman Catholic church, wrote that whatever we have in superabundance—that is, above and beyond what wi...
They are not describing the number of animals killed for food. They are talking about animals who don’t even get the benefit of supposedly humane slaughter laws because they are so badly treated that...
The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument.
The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.
The United States government continues to pour billions of dollars into research on cancer, while it also subsidizes the tobacco industry. Much of the research money goes toward animal experiments, ma...
Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not d...
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family—that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant s...
Now that we have understood the nature of speciesism and seen the consequences it has for nonhuman animals it is time to ask: What can we do about it? There are many things that we can and should do a...