A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Never work with kids or animals.
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?
People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155
I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?
You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Liberals think that goats are sheep from broken homes.
