Human Privilege

"We are all animals, and just as you feel moved more by poor people than by people with funds or by the frail elderly than by athletic older people, the animals most in need of our largesse and consideration are those without power, rights, freedom, and so on. They need us desperately to help them, and surely, if we are the kind of people we like to think we are—against needless cruelty, injustice and gratuitous violence—we have to care about the animals who are “not privileged enough” to be born human."

Suggested Reading: Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living by Ingrid Newkirk, President & founder of PETA