“[W]e, [antispeciesist consequentialists], see you as violating rights if you don’t even want to try to do something about all the suffering that animals have to endure in nature. If animals have a right to live without the interference of human predators, then why don’t they have a right to live without the interference of non-human predators too? Non-human hunters often let their victims suffer more than human hunters. So why are you only concerned with human predators? That’s speciesism. If we try to end predation (and starvation and disease, which is even more important) in nature, that will result in a smaller total number of rights violations and will therefore be the lesser evil.”

— Adriano Mannino