"Men and women are similar beings and should have similar rights, while humans and non-humans are different and should not have equal rights" (Chapter 1, p. 2).

"The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings" (Chapter 1, p. 5).

"The practice of experimenting on non-human animals as it exists today throughout the world reveals the consequences of speciesism" (Chapter 2, p. 36).

"It doesn't take a Ph. D. in the sciences to grasp the fact that rodent exposure to the saccharin equivalent of 1,800 bottles of soda pop a day doesn't relate well to our daily ingestion of a few glasses of the stuff" (Chapter 2, p. 57).

"Would we be prepared to let thousands of humans die if they could be saved by a single experiment on a single animal" (Chapter 2, p. 81).

"For most...