I Always Loved Animals. And

I Didn't Want To Become A Professor Or Get Tenure Or Teach Or Anything. All I Wanted To Do Was Get A Degree Because Louis Leakey Said I Needed One, Which Was Right, And Once I Succeeded I Could Get Back To The Field.

Farm Animals Are Far More Aware And Intelligent Than We Ever Imagined And, Despite Having Been Bred As Domestic Slaves, They Are Individual Beings In Their Own Right. As Such, They Deserve Our Respect. And Our Help. Who Will Plead For Them If We Are Silent? Thousands Of People Who Say They ‘love’ Animals Sit Down Once Or Twice A Day To Enjoy The Flesh Of Creatures Who Have Been Treated So With Little Respect And Kindness Just To Make More Meat.

We're The Ones Who Can Make A Difference. If We Lead Lives Where We Consciously Leave The Lightest Possible Ecological Footprints, If We Buy The Things That Are Ethical For Us To Buy And Don't Buy The Things That Are Not, We Can Change The World Overnight.

There Are Many Animal-welfare Groups That Sometimes Seem To Forget That Human Beings Are Animals Too, That We Need To Include Them In Our Sphere Of Compassion.

The Tree I Had In The Garden As A Child, My Beech Tree, I Used To Climb Up There And Spend Hours. I Took My Homework Up There, My Books, I Went Up There If I Was Sad, And It Just Felt Very Good To Be Up There Among The Green Leaves And The Birds And The Sky.