http://isaronline.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-animal-suffering-matters-by-andrew_14.html

Why Animal Suffering Matters, by Andrew Linzey. Reviewed by Professor Henry Mark Holzer

In the end, the first paragraph of Dr. Linzey’s conclusion, sums up much of his book: “Concern for animal suffering, like concern for the suffering of young children, ought reasonably to arise from the following considerations: their inability to give or withhold their consent, their inability to verbalize or represent their interests, their inability to comprehend, their moral innocence or blamelessness, and, not least of all, their relative defencelessness and vulnerability. These considerations, and the sheer volume of animal suffering, are masked, minimized, or obfuscated by a range of powerful psychological and linguistic mechanisms that prevent us from directly confronting our treatment of animals as a moral issue” (emphasis supplied).

(one of identical visions of Pocket  for more than 11 years!--thanks, Karen)