If You Are Not Vegan, Please Consider

The Most Important Form Of Incremental Change Is The Decision By The Individual To Become Vegan. Veganism, Or The Eschewing Of All Animal Products, Is More Than A Matter Of Diet Or Lifestyle; It Is A Political And Moral Statement In Which The Individual Accepts The Principle Of Abolition In Her Own Life. Veganism Is The One Truly Abolitionist Goal That We Can All Achieve - And We Can Achieve It Immediately, Starting With Our Next Meal.

But If There Were Two Dogs Left In The Universe And It Were Up To Us As To Whether They Were Allowed To Breed So That We Could Continue To Live With Dogs, And Even If We Could Guarantee That All Dogs Would Have Homes As Loving As The One That We Provide, We Would Not Hesitate For A Second To Bring The Whole Institution Of 'pet' Ownership To An End.

There Is No Difference Between Sitting Around The Pit Watching Dogs Fight And Sitting Around A Summer Barbecue Roasting The Corpses Of Tortured Animals Or Enjoying The Dairy Or Eggs From Tortured Animals.

...eating Animals Involves An Intentional Decision To Participate In The Suffering And Death Of Nonhumans Where There Is No Plausible Moral Justification.

We Can No More Justify Using Nonhumans As Human Resources Than We Can Justify Human Slavery. Animal Use And Slavery Have At Least One Important Point In Common: Both Institutions Treat Sentient Beings Exclusively As Resources Of Others. That Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Humans; It Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Nonhumans—however “humanely” We Treat Them.