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In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

The beast is not dead.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.