I Think Anything Is Better

So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The 'global Village' We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance. There Was Absolutely No Harm In Being Part Of A Small Group - Indeed, With Our Hunter-gatherer Band Mentality It Gave Comfort, Provided Us With An Inner Circle Of Friends Who Could Be Utterly Trusted, Who Were Absolutely Reliable. It Helped Give Us Peace Of Mind. The Danger Came Only From Drawing That Sharp Line, Digging That Ditch, Laying That Minefield, Between Our Own Group And Any Other Group That Thought Differently.

Surely It Should Be A Matter Of Moral Responsibility That We Humans, Different From Other Animals Mainly By Virtue Of Our More Highly Developed Intellect And, With It, Our Greater Capacity For Understanding And Compassion, Ensure That Medical Progress Slowly Detaches Its Roots From The Manure Of Non-human Animal Suffering And Despair.

I Don't Have Any Idea Of Who Or What God Is. But I Do Believe In Some Great Spiritual Power. I Feel It Particularly When I’m Out In Nature. It’s Just Something That's Bigger And Stronger Than What I Am Or What Anybody Is. I Feel It. And It's Enough For Me.

Researchers Find It Very Necessary To Keep Blinkers On. They Don't Want To Admit That The Animals They Are Working With Have Feelings.

The Least I Can Do Is Speak Out For The Hundreds Of Chimpanzees Who, Right Now, Sit Hunched, Miserable And Without Hope, Staring Out With Dead Eyes From Their Metal Prisons. They Cannot Speak For Themselves.