" Confronted with each nation's own questionable products and practices, we have two choices. We can say, as Mr. Komatsu hopes, "Well they do X but we do Y, so who are we to judge?" We then end up with no standard at all, instead using other people's cruelties as an excuse for our own. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy