Tom Regan

"Animals are drowned, suffocated, and starved to death; they have their limbs severed and their organs crushed; they are burned, exposed to radiation, and used in experimental surgeries; they are shock…"

"The less gifted do not exist to serve the interests of the more gifted. The former are not mere things when compared to the latter, to be used as means to the latter's ends. From the moral point of vi…"

"So the real question, I believe, is not whether some ARA's use violence. The real question is whether they are justified in doing so. Here are the main outlines of a possible justification. 1. Animals…"

"People like me, people who believe in animal rights, feel the same way about eagles and elephants, pigs and porpoises, as most people feel about cats and dogs. Don't get me wrong. Animal Rights Advoca…"

"Finally, and lamentably, one thing seems certain. Unless the massive amount of violence done to animals is acknowledged by those who do it, and until meaningful steps are taken to end it, as certain a…"

"What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals sub…"

"I would never have become an animal rights advocate if I had not first been a human rights advocate, especially for those humans who lack the understanding or power to assert their rights for themselv…"

"And they say ARAs are violent. The bitter truth would be laughable if it were not so tragic. The violence done to things by some ARAs is nothing compared to the violence done to feeling creatures by t…"