In point of fact, I am the very opposite of an anthropomorphiser. I don’t hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice—and that is precisely why we are under the obligation to recognise and respect the rights of animals.
(Brigid Brophy, The Rights of Animals [London: The Animal Defence & Anti-Vivisection Society, 1965], 8 [first published on 10 October 1965 in the Sunday Times])
