" Leave us to our whale," as the whalers say, "and we will leave you to your McDonalds and pork chops." They have a point. If you can have your favorites treats from the factory farm, why on earth can't others have their whale meal, or others their "racks" or ivory or fur coats or macaque brains or whatever? By what moral standard may we condemn any practice? "

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