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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

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

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.