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.

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...