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.

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

I love working with PETA.

Obesity affects every aspect of a people’s lives, from health to relationships.

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It’s like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

What does homophobia look like when it’s stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who’ve...

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn’t long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay’s life began...

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal’s rotting carcass.

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

There’s no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

Agribusiness – with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts – essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It’s the rich fox guarding the filthy,...

Bolivia recently did what every country should do – banned the use of animals in circuses.

It’s time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America’s horses once and for all.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

I say peace begins on your plate.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of...

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn’t mess with.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

The natural world is not indestructible.