Quotes from Tom Regan

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Estar por los animales no es estar contra la humanidad. Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.

What happens to them matters to them.