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Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'