We lack all kinds of amazing qualities that animals have, but we single out one damn thing that we’re not even very good at — rationality — and we say that is what makes us masters of the universe. That is what justifies fur farms, vivisection laboratories, slaughterhouses, aquariums, zoos, circuses, rodeos… every exploitative, barbaric institution of enslavement we have ever created as hell on Earth for animals. We have used our minds for that purpose and we have justified it according to the fallacy that we have reason, we have reason alone, and that that is adequate for exploiting all other forms of life. Dr. Steve Best, “Everything You Know About Homo Sapiens is Wrong” (via setbabiesonfire)