The Side Constraint of What People Think About the Movement

"What people think about our movement is rather neither here nor there. What matters is saving the lives," he says. "I don't claim that I know precisely how to strike that balance, but it seems to me that what happens if we undertake some of the most extreme kinds of direct action ... It's just as likely that some thousands of pigs instead of being turned into bacon just to get killed and have their bodies thrown in a ditch somewhere." 'There's empirical evidence suggesting that some of this stuff makes people far less sympathetic'