In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

When you’re in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

There’s no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is...

There’s no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

The fact is: America’s obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed...

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I’ve bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and...

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it’s totally safe.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media’s all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it’s to save the horses from...

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.

Every decision we make – when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food – is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It’s an environmental and moral choice.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It’s a billion dollar industry.

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It’s time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has...

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

There’s no excuse in a technological age where we’ve got drones – you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia – that we can’t track living flesh-and-blood children.

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids’ lunches.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America’s horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see...

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

Honestly is always an option, even when you don’t think it is.

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even...

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

Locking minors away for decades doesn’t solve anything.

Redemption isn’t giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

If parents don’t instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won’t learn it anywhere else.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It’s usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate...

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we’re suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food...

I’ve studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that’s one of the reasons they’re so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It’s a dead issue. It’s like they’re color-blind...

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

McDonald’s says it’s phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

Unfortunately, addicts don’t respond to reason or rationality.

What’s it like to figure out you’re gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to...

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don’t want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies...

Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.

I love ‘Scandal.’ It’s my favorite show – it’s really – the only one I really watch.

Wouldn’t it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.