You have no idea where I've been.    I'm not an armchair pundit.  

As an activist over 45 years, I have seen the truth for myself in many arenas.  I'm not in the market for a mountain of manure, even though you keep trying to sell it to me.


"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
- Albert Schweitzer

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” 
― Arthur Schopenhauer, "The Basis of Morality"

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women for men."
- Alice Walker,  in the preface to "The Dreaded Comparison"