Advocacy is better served when fellow activists are able to respond in ways that do not build walls or burn bridges. Change takes time and tends to come hard to human beings. Those who understand this human tendency are more effective activists.

Humans who are in positions of power make the rules, and therefore their interests almost always come first – no matter what the cost to anymals and less powerful human beings.

What megalomania led us to believe it would be morally acceptable to exploit individuals from other species for scientific experimentation?

International trade in primates flourishes because we exploit primates for science.

Many humans would experiment on nonhumans in the hope of saving a loved one, and they would just as readily experiment on humans to sustain that same hope.

Confucian traditions teach that all beings stem from one source, the Great Ultimate, and participate in the Great Unity. Ren (love or benevolence) is the essence of all that is good in humanity, and extends across species, as exemplified in the noble person (junzi).

There is no requirement that the cows, pigs, or hens who were exploited to create “natural” productsbe treated any different from how other factory farmed animals are treated. Farmed animals who are exploited for “natural” products are not allowed tolive in natural conditions—they are not even allowed to satisfy their most basic natural behaviors.

If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.

Cheap meat, dairy, and eggs are an illusion–we pay for each with depleted forests, polluted freshwater, soil degradation, and climate change.

Anymal liberationists do not target life—they target industries (and profits) that flourish at the expense of life—and they attempt to rescue the exploited. Terrorists kill randomly; anymal liberationists have never killed anyone. Anymal liberationists exemplify what it is to live into the core teachings of every major religion concerning rightful relations between human beings and anymals.