Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous. It’s not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures –
of how animals once were in their natural habitat.
If the right policies toward nature were pursued,
we would need no zoos at all.

Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest

Life is life — whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.