Calling for a re-evaluation of what we label fascism, a recent book argued that, by using the word as a synonym for anything that is undesirable, we are blinded to the examples around us of real fascism from both Left and Right wing governments.
The estimated value of the market for wildlife tracking is at least €10bn, making it one of the largest illegal trades in the world.
Many people would probably claim to be outraged by this, but where does one draw the line? If you are against wildlife hunting, should you also be against animal experimentation, or eating meat?
A small but growing minority of people is choosing to become vegetarian or vegan.
There are a growing number of animal sanctuaries, from the very well-known, through to much more recently established bodies.
Some organisations also campaign against not just against meat, but also against all human uses of animal products.
Has eating fish, in a world of overfished stocks, become one of the moral dilemmas of our age?
When I was a child we kept lots of animals, including a cat, guinea pigs and hamsters, and it made no sense to me that there were lots of animals that you cared for, and often cared for very deeply, and other animals that are killed and consumed - Wendy Higgins, a former campaign director for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana - Buddha
There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, rather, can they suffer - Jeremy Bentham
The humanist sense of a gulf between ourselves and other animals is an aberration. Feeble as it is today, the feeling of sharing a common destiny with other living things is embedded in the human psyche. Those who struggle to conserve what is left of the natural environment are moved by the love of living things, biophilia, the frail bond of feeling that ties humankind to the Earth - John Gray, Straw Dogs
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore - Franz Kafka while looking at a fish
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet - Albert Einstein