“When you cut your finger and you feel that terrible excruciating pain, the world disappears. The world is gone. You’ve only cut your little pinky, and its a tiny, tiny little cut that in a matter of moments will be done. But for the moment that you feel that pain, the world is gone. All you feel is that terrible, terrible pain. It’s the only universe, the only world you have, and it’s all yours, and you’re locked in, and everybody else is gone. The problem is when you feel that type of pain endlessly, and you can’t escape it. It begins to transform who you are. You begin to lose whatever special thing there is within us that makes life worth living.”

— Keith Devries in Speciesism: The Movie (2013)